Murray Irwin wrote:
>
> Hi all
> Is it possible to get a Starmax to recognise an IDE drive even though it is
> formatted as a PC one?
> What I thought of doing was using Soft PC and having the whole drive as the
> PC one, as it is
> already formatted in its 486.
>
> Thanks
>
> Murray
I don't think so even as a second drive because the drive will need to
be recognied as proper mac formatted drive way before in the startup
sequence. Soft PC can only be started after the machine has taken you to
a finished desktop and the PC drive would have been already rejected.
If the PC is the only drive, you should get a blinking ? moments after
you start the machine because there's nothing to startup the mac there.
If you start from a CD or another mac drive which means you have to
disconnect the CD drive, you can get a finished desktop, but the PC
drive will never show up. If you search it out with DriveSetup, it will
tell you the drive needs to be initialized, I think.
Don't do that, you'll lose whatever's on that drive in turning it into a
mac readable drive.
Anyway, that's what I think, but there may be other ways....
Bob
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