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madmann
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on: January 26, 2008, 20:22

i got a scsi drive that was supposed to be a 50 pin which turned out to be something else with an adaptor to 50 pin.  it seams to work but i want to reformat it to hsf mac standard.  when i tried in 7.6.1 drive set would not allow it to be done. it is 18 gig i was planning on 2 9 gig partitions. ant ideas?
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Reply #1 on: January 26, 2008, 22:32

You may be having problems with this because system 7 does not support larger hard drives very well, maybe you could format it on another mac? Have you tried drive setup or only the finder?
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Reply #2 on: January 26, 2008, 22:37

thanks i moved over to an os 9 machine and the disk setup allowed me to reformat.

 As an external drive os7 will read hfs+.  But you were correct i needed to run a newer os that would allow me to change to format to std mac
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Reply #3 on: January 26, 2008, 23:03

Quote from: "madmann"
As an external drive os7 will read hfs+.


Mac OS 7 will not read any drive that is HFS+, although it will recognize that it is there and "mount" it - but it will only contain a text file that says you cannot access the contents of that disk.
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Reply #4 on: January 28, 2008, 00:43

you are correct Not sure what i was thinking
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