hello, thank you very much for tking the time to answer my questions so thoroughly. i will be doing this today. hec >Just another quick note. I had a friend of mine that purchased a >firewire porche drive. Couldn't format the drive with any type of X >utility including disk utility. For the heck of it I had him try >OS9's disk utility and it formated fine. After that he was able to >reformat the drive with X's disk utility, go figure. > >On Jan 13, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Philip J Robar wrote: