Drive 10 & Panther Compatibility

[Albert D'Amanda]

On Nov 12, 2003,, at 7:52 PM, Micromat Drive 10 Tech Support wrote:

> Albert,
>
> The current version of Drive 10 (v1.1.4) will work fine on your 
> computer and
> under Panther.

> .--and then boot and run the
> program from there to < OPTIMIZE > or repair your normal startup 
> volume.
>

With respect to <OPTIMIZE> , i believe there is a caveat to the above 
statement that you may not be aware of.

It would appear that Drive 10  V1.4.1 will not optimize a drive if the 
drive has been formated with  Mac OS Extended(Journaled)

  With  Drive 10  V1.4.1 , when selecting  Optimize Volume " a graphic 
is displayed saying--" File System journaling has been enabled. While 
you may analyze this volume, It is not available for optimization."

How about that!
In my case a real bummer!
Panther's default installation formats the drive as "Mac OS Extended 
(journaled)" which Apple has pushed as a big plus! And both my bootup 
and backup drive(s ) have been installed/formated with "journaling".

Is it possible that your "line of coders" can come up with a hack to 
make your Optimization stuff work with journaling enabled ?

As all of my hard drives are presently "performing to perfection", I am 
very reluctant to go thru the reformat and reinstall process, etc.

Thanks for your time

albert