[Ham-Mac] Why Partition vs. Erase a SATA hard drive?

[Dick Kriss, AA5VU]

On 8/1/05 6:29 PM, "Rick Prather" <rprather at mac.com> wrote:

> I don't know why they would point you to the Partition function
> unless you wanted more than the one base partition.

Stay tuned for the response from SIIG regarding their manual that says to
use the Partition function.  I talked to an Apple tech who said he always
uses the Partition function for new drives but he could not remember why he
uses Partition vs. Erase.

If anyone know the answer, please speak up.

BTW, I noticed in using the Disk Utility.app you ONLY get the Partition
option if you select the Disk Description of the drive rather than drive
name.  Try it and you will see what I mean.

Dick, AA5VU