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

[KD5NWA]

I have two LaCie and one generic HD units and I have not had any problems.

At 12:23 PM 8/3/2005, you wrote:

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