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

John E Bastin jbastin at sssnet.com
Thu Aug 4 07:24:56 EDT 2005


On Aug 3, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Steve Byan wrote:
>
> 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.

On Aug 3, 2005, at 2:41 PM, KD5NWA wrote:

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

I guess I need to go back and re-investigate this issue. Looks like  
it's possible to get something that will work for me. That would be  
good, because then I could get rid of this G4 in favor of something  
newer and faster.

Thanks for the information.

73,

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



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