[MacDV] Re: OT: Formatting an MS DOS disk in Jaguar

[Carl Flatow]

On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 02:39 PM, Michael Winter wrote:

>
> On Nov 14, 2003, at 7:42 AM, Carl Flatow wrote:
>
>> According to "The Missing Manual" if I open Disk Utilities, select a 
>> volume ( in a usb floppy drive) I should be able to format it by 
>> choosing MS-DOS File System under the Erase tab.
>> Unfortunately the only options available are two Mac formats and UNIX.
>>
>> Can someone help with this?
>
> Maybe. It looks like you have to do it to an entire drive. For 
> example, I have a drive that shows up in Disk Utility as "115.0 GB 
> Oxford Semi..." . Below that, and slightly indented is the volume name 
> ("Silver" in my case). If I click on "Silver" (the volume, I can only 
> format in  Mac or UNIX format. If I click on "115.0 GB Oxford 
> Semic..." (the drive) I can now format as MS-DOS File System.
>
> So it looks like you can do an entire disk as MS-DOS File System, but 
> not a single volume or partition on a disk.
>
> Hope that helps.
>

THANK YOU MIKE!!!!

I have asked all over the place and you are the ONLY one to have had 
the answer!
I hope it makes you feel good that you have REALLY helped me out!

Much appreciation,
Carl