[G4] Firewire Confusion

[Fabian Fang]

I have several external hard drives (IBM/Hitachi and Western Digital) which I installed into OWC FireWire enclosures.  I have no difficulty formatting and partitioning the drives with Disk Utility unde OS 10.3.5.


On Sunday, October 17, 2004, at 08:00PM, Carol <java_j at macosx.com> wrote:

>I recently purchased a Mercury Elite Pro Firewire drive from OWC.  It
>came with Hard Disk Speed Tools.  I am attempting to check out the drive
>with their program called Integrity.
>
>I am using a dual-boot. dual processor 1.25 G4 running OS 10.3.5.  The
>drive is giving me errors when it compares what it wrote to what it
>attempted to write.  The manufacturer suggests zero formatting with Disk
>Utility.  That has failed.
>
>What is strange is that I can reformat the drive using Hard Disk Speed
>Tools under OS 9.2.2 on my older single processor G4.  The Classic
>version of Integrity does not report read/write errors.
>
>Then I tried the Classic version of Integrity on my dual processor after
>I booted it to OS 9.  I still had read/write errors.
>
>This sounds to me like a problem with the dual processor and not the
>drive.  Any other hints?  
>
>Apple tech support suggested that I try reformatting the drive on my
>single processor using Disk Setup in OS 9 since I had no luck with Disk
>Utility in OS 10.3.5.
>
>Will Drive Setup even format firewire drives?  My drive mounted and
>showed up with Disk First Aid, but it did not show up under Drive Setup.