[G4] novice questions for external drive

[Ralph Garrett]

On Jan 14, 2005, at 6:44 AM, Wayne Wilkin wrote:

> 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.
>

I ran into that once, turned out the firewire drive had been formatted 
FAT16!???

Ralph