[MacDV] Re: Buying a New Drive

[Michael Winter]

On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 07:54  PM, ShirleyK wrote:

> I would have preferred to do that with my 160 GB FW drive too, but 
> Disk Utility didn't recognize the disk. So you haven't run into that 
> yet?

Not yet <knocks on wood>.

Is it possible there's a 3rd party Firewire driver that's been 
installed on your system?

The reason I ask is that I've had bad experiences with installing 
drivers that came with 3rd party drives. I'll admit this was with SCSI 
drivers of old, but the directions that came with drives always urged 
you to install the software that came with the drive (drive utilities 
etc.). Doing this sometimes caused the 'new" software to take over all 
drives, which in most cases was simply annoying, but in others a 
complete disaster.

That's another one of the reasons I tend to toss the software that 
comes with drives into a drawer and reformat (and partition) with Disk 
Utility.

Other than that, I'm at a loss as to why Disk Utility couldn't 
recognize the disk.

-Mike