ACFX44501 writes, <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.> Hmmmm. Come to think of it -- oh, I am really getting senile here, as this is fairly recent -- I actually DID use Drive Setup to format a 2 GB HD for Mac, which I assume had to have been IBM formatted when I got it. I assume this because it was used, coming from my boyfriend's Mac free workplace. Someone was going to throw it out, he snagged it and gave it to me. Anyway, what actually happened was, once he installed the HD and I gave it a proper SCSI address, my Mac said "This disk cannot be read by this Macintosh." Which was not really a surprise, and was also what known IBM formatted floppies used to give me when I inserted them, although I knew they had to be Mac formatted before I could use them. My first move was to run the Erase Disk function on the new HD, but all that accomplished was offering me a choice of "Macintosh 1.2 GB Standard" or "Extended" formats. With Drive Setup, however, I was able to pick 1.9 GB Extended format, which I did, wanting to get the most space possible out of the new HD. Anyway, the formatting worked out just fine, and the HD has been serving me well. Now if only my Disk Doctor and Speed Disk would work on it. ::::sigh:::: ~Yersinia. -- 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
