how to format my external drive?

[Edith Frost]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 15:46, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Hmmm.... I tried it out in Mac OS X just before e-mailing you, and I 
> saw the MS-DOS file system as a choice.

Good lord, why didn't I see that before?  Anyway... it let me erase the
disk as MS-DOS, but won't mount the disk to the desktop, and won't allow
me to give it a partition unless I change the format again -- MS-DOS
isn't an option under the Partition tab, you can only do that in Erase. 
When I go back to Linux with the disk erased as MS-DOS, pdisk tells me
there is no longer any /dev/sda device.  I'm going to do more googling
and try to figure it out, will post back if I get any further.  :-)

Edith