--- On Tue, 1/5/10, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Dan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Question about Mac IIsi To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 8:53 PM At 12:00 AM -0600 1/5/2010, David Colvin wrote: > I have a quick question. I'm selling a Lacie Tsunami 100 mg external HD. I > formatted it using Lido 7 on my Classic. It's spinning like a top and seems > to work great. A prospective buyer has a question that I can't honestly > answer. Here's the question: > > "With the formatting you've done, do you think your external HD would work > with a Mac IIsi running OS 6.0.8?" > > I wouldn't know why it shouldn't work fine but I've never owned a Mac II. > What should I tell him? It will probably work. But it's moot! Upon receiving a new HD thru the mail, after letting it acclimate for a few hours or overnight (especially in this cold weather!), his first task should be to reformat[*] it! No telling what horrible things happened to that package in transit... [*] Old SCSI drives, you re-format. Newer IDE/SATA drives, you re-initialize and zero all blocks. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- The hard drive format should work for any system before 7.5.3 Joe ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
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