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

[John E Bastin]

On Aug 2, 2005, at 7:58 AM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

>
> 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.

Count me as another tech (not Apple, but an Apple Service Provider)  
who always uses the Partition function in Disk Utility when I'm  
setting up a new hard drive, even when setting up only one partition  
(which I do, by choice, ALL the time unless the customer specifies  
differently).

My experience has been occasional failures of the new drive to boot  
in Mac OS X if I used Erase and then installed a new OS. I never had  
that problem when using Partition.

73,

John E Bastin, K8AJS
jbastin at sssnet.com
http://www.qsl.net/k8ajs/