[1394] Re: Firewire Formatting Utilities

[DaleH]

I guess I am confused by your statement (full text at bottom of page) -

>  > With OS 9.1 or higher you can use the generic FireWire driver that Apple
>  includes.  You can't partition a drive with it, only format a drive.

The part- "You can't partition a drive with it, only FORMAT a drive."
Format a drive with what?

DaleH

>Apple has never supported external FireWire devices with Drive Setup under
>OS 9 - it wasn't until OS X and Disk Utility that Apple included that
>function in their app.
>
>You can only do a Finder erase disk under OS 9 unless you use a 3rd party
>app such as FWB or Charismac or Intec Speedtools, etc.
>
>
>>>  While we can't recommend any third party driver, we do recommend either
>>>  using the Apple generic driver in 9.1 (if you do not need to partition a
>>>  drive), or Disk Utility in OS X.
>>>
>>>  FireWire Depot
>>>  http://www.fwdepot.com
>>
>>  Thanks for the response.
>>  I'm sitting in front of an 8600 with OS 9.1 running and Drive Setup
>>  (2.0.3) open to the drive selection window - but none of my Firewire
>>  drives are visible.
>>  Now I'm sitting in front of a G4 with OS 9.2.2 running and Drive
>>  Setup (2.0.7) open - again none of the Firewire devices are shown.
>>  Disk First Aid will allow me to test and erase these drives, but they
>>  are invisible to Drive Setup.
>>  DaleH
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>   Back in the SCSI days before Apple's Drive Setup recognized 3rd party
>>>>   drives, I used FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit on everything that was
>>>>   external and SCSI.
>>>>
>>>>   Now I have Firewire drives from half a dozen sources asking me to to
>>>>   format with the distributor's tool of choice - Lacie Silverlining,
>>>>   Charismac Anubis Utility, APS PowerTools, Intech SpeedTools - each of
>>>>   which requires installing their own Firewire Support extension to
>>>>   allow formatting.
>>>>
>>>>   I'd like to be able to format all of my Firewire drives with one
>>>>   utility. Since FWB is slow on answering via email, I'd like some user
>>>>   feedback on whether other utilities might work on all Firewire/USB
>>>>   devices.
>>>>
>>>>  DaleH
>>>>
>>
>>
>>  It is best to settle on a single FireWire driver for compatibility.
>>
>  > With OS 9.1 or higher you can use the generic FireWire driver that Apple
>  > includes.  You can't partition a drive with it, only format a drive.
>>
>>  With OS X, Disk Utilities is the way to go.
>>
>>  With OS 9.0 or earlier you have to use a third party driver.
>>
>>  Mixing drivers and formatting drives with different utilities can cause
>>  problems as not all third party drivers are compatible with each other and
>>  you may experience read/write errors.
>>
>>  While we can't recommend any third party driver, we do recommend either
>>  using the Apple generic driver in 9.1 (if you do not need to partition a
>>  drive), or Disk Utility in OS X.
>>
>>  FireWire Depot
>  > http://www.fwdepot.com
>>