Lost in Flash Drive PCI USB SCSI hotplug, etc.

[Marcelo Giles]

Do you NEED to have it formatted for Mac OS? Perhaps you need to share 
files between Mac OS and Linux?
Otherwise, it would be easier to format it as ext2 or ext3 (linux 
native).
Are you using Panther as the Mac OS? I don't know if YDL supports HFS+ 
Journaled, which is Panther's native fs.

This is from Disk Utility's help:

Formatting a Windows (MS-DOS) disk

You can use Disk Utility to format an entire disk in Windows (MS-DOS) 
format, but you cannot format a single disk partition in Windows 
format.

  WARNING: To prepare a disk in Windows format, you must erase the 
entire disk.

  1.  Open Disk Utility, located in Applications/Utilities, and select 
the disk you want to format.
  2.  Click Erase and choose MS-DOS File System from the Volume Format 
pop-up menu.
  3.  Type a name for the disk.
  4.  Click Erase, then click Erase again.

On Aug 6, 2004, at 5:41 PM, Walt Pawley wrote:
>
> I came to that idea too. However, it complains that the appropriate
> filesystem is not found. I tried both "-t hfs" and "-t hfsplus" and 
> all the
> partition numbers including using a null number and 3, even, just for
> completeness.
>
> Since the original posting, I went back the G5 and reformated the Flash
> Drive with Apple's version of UFS. This didn't help at all (about all 
> that
> seemed to change in the partition map was the "H" in the type column
> changed to a "U"). I found it somewhat odd that Apple doesn't see fit 
> to
> provide a DOS-ish format in Disk Utility. Perhaps I'm missing something
> there as well ... sigh.