>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.
The "erase disk" function can change a floppy from IBM to Mac (or back) because there is only one format, namely that of a "flat" (i.e., unpartitioned) file system. The same is almost true of a hard disk which is already in Mac format ... it can be changed from HFS to HFS+ (and back) ... but not to IBM (or back). Changing a hard disk from IBM to Mac requires Drive Setup, which will properly initialize the first five or six partitions to include the boot partition, the various hard disk driver partitions, the patch partition, etcetera, and, of course, the special recovery blocks, none of which are present in the same way on an IBM-formatted disk. Those Mac-specific partitions are already present on an HFS-formatted hard disk, so "erase disk" can easily make the conversion to HFS+ (or back). "Erase disk" can change the characteristics of the *only* partition on a disk (the floppy case), or the *selected* partition on a disk (the hard disk case) ... it cannot change an IBM-formatted (and partitioned) disk to a Mac-formatted (and partitioned) disk. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
