[X Newbies] Drive 10 & Panther Compatibility

[Birgit Rhoads]

No bummer.  Applications/Utilities/Disk Utilities/File/Disable 
Journaling

Birgit Rhoads


On Nov 12, 2003, at 9:30 PM, Albert D'Amanda wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
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