[1394] Re: Firewire Formatting Utilities

DaleH dhoff at margnat.com
Sun Dec 8 08:02:30 PST 2002


>On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 10:48  AM, Erik Gilchrist wrote:
>
>>>
>>>When I moved over to the "Erase" option, it appears that I could
>>>proceed to erase the drive but the "Install Mac OS 9 Drivers" option
>>>box was greyed out. An explanation followed:
>>>	"If this option is not selected, this device cannot
>>>	be used by a computer running Mac OS9.
>>>	This option does not affect Classic."
>
>OK, last night I was able to partition out my 60GB OWC drive into 6 
>parts. I was able to install os 9 drivers on Jag running the Drive 
>Setup app.
>
>HTH's

I see my error - I selected the "Volume" in Drive Setup. When I 
selected the "Disk" I was able to install OS 9 Drivers. Thanks for 
aiming me in the right direction. I think I'll be formatting all of 
my Firewire Drives on an OSX Jaguar machine.
DaleH



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