[Ham-Mac] external Firewire boxen and Disk Utilities (Was: Why Partition vs. Erase a SATA hard drive?)

[Steve Byan]

On Aug 3, 2005, at 7:35 AM, John E Bastin wrote:

> I've used various external FireWire boxes, and they all work well 
> except they are not supported in OS X for formatting. I always have to 
> temporarily install the drive internally in my G4 to partition it, and 
> then can take it out and put it in the external box to move files to 
> it.
>
> If you know of an external FireWire box with a chipset that supports 
> all the Mac OS X initialization options, I'd like to know what it is.

I've got three no-name boxes with Oxford 911A chipsets that all work 
with Disk Utility, from 10.2 up through 10.4. I've never had a problem 
formatting these disks.

Regards,
-Steve
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Steve Byan <stevebyan at mac.com>
Littleton, MA