[X4U] Re: Using external HDD

[George Harvey]

Neil Laubenthal is correct. I have partitioned 6 external drives  
including SCSIs and three LaCie FireWire drives, formatted with Disk  
Utility and installed OS X on each one. They have all worked with no  
problems whatsoever. I would not recommend partitioning if you want  
to minimize the number of separate drive to manipulate. For example,  
I erased my 250 GB 800 MHz FireWire drive and reinstalled OS and  
scratch files on it without partitioning. It is handier that way. You  
need a reason such as this to not partition. There is nothing flakey  
about the Mac.

George Harvey


On May 26, 2005, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
> It's a hard drive . . .and all hard drives pretty much work the same.
> It would be like issuing a FAQ that said 'don't change your keyboard
> do Dvorak even though the OS supports that.