>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
As long as you have a mac formated drive to boot from, ie another hard
drive or a CD, then the mac will boot up and be able to both read and write
files to the PC formatted media, whether its a IDE hard drive, or just a
floppy.
What isn't entirely clear is if you can actually boot from a PC format hard
drive, but my guess is no due to the drivers being PC.
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