I've got nothing useful to add here but, as this thread seems to be running out of puff, I just thought I'd try to get it to stagger on a bit longer...
Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:14 -0700, "Joseph McAllister" <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Jun 4, 2010, at 11:10 , steve harley wrote: > > > On 2010-06-04 00:23 , John Sessoms wrote: > >> However the software doesn't give me the choice of NO. It only > >> gives me > >> the choice to change the configuration so as to make the drive > >> useless > >> or to cancel. > >> > >> If this were Windoze software, there would be some way to turn the > >> software off. > > > > i think this is solvable, but vague descriptions are not going to > > cut it; obviously your gurus don't even know how to google so let me > > give you what i've got: first of all i plug multi-format drives into > > Macs all the time and get no such pop-up > > <snip> > > > given the right details i can do some googling for your gurus > > I refrained from commenting, because I could not for the life on me > figure out why he would get such a message other than what you've > mentioned about some irregularity in the formatting of a dual use > drive. Oh, and a La Cie drive as well. Any drive I use is reformatted > with the current version of Disk Utility before I use it. I don't use > the "One Button Backup" or other little things that come with many > drives, so do not need any software that they include on the drive. > > Joseph McAllister > pentax...@mac.com > > “ It is still true, as was first said many years ago, that people are > the only sophisticated computing devices that can be made at low cost > by unskilled workers!” > — Martin G. Wolf, PhD > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
