[X Newbies] USB Drives and OS X

Diego Terneus dtern at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 30 09:58:58 PST 2002


Yes, I've tried unplugging and re-plugging the drive to no avail.
I think the next step is to forget the USB connection and transfer the 
hard drive to a firewire enclosure.
Thanks for your help, Jerry.

On Saturday, Nov 30, 2002, at 09:40 US/Pacific, Jerry Wilson wrote:

>
> On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 09:12  AM, Diego Terneus wrote:
>
>>
>> The drive is formatted as hsf+ for OS 9 using a Radialogic driver.
>> How do I reformat for OS X if I can't see the drive when Disk Utility 
>> is running?
>
> Yes I was corrected by some kind sole on HFS+, actually goes back to 
> 8.1.  True to my state I cannot remember what the format for OSX 
> (Unix) is called.  Not to embarrass myself too much more have you 
> tried unplugging and re-plugging while the system is on, some times 
> that will help the system identify USB/Firewire devices
>
> SICBOMH
> Jerryw
>
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