Dan 5300c writes,

<If I take an IBM formatted drive and drop it into my 5300, then start
from an external hard drive, I should be able to use Apple's drive setup 
to
format it for Mac, right?>

I can't see why not. I've gotten floppies which were IBM formatted and 
was able to Mac format them easily with the "Erase Disk" function applied 
to the floppies in question. So I don't see why Drive Setup used to 
similarly format an IBM formatted HD should be any less effective.

~Yersinia.

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