Subject: Re: 3rd party drives
From: Timothy A. Seufert (tas@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 14:08:27 MST
At 3:53 PM -0500 10/31/01, John Eckman wrote:
>Any general recommendaitons on formatting non-apple drives for use with YDL?
>
>I have FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 4.5, and some non-apple SCSI internal drives.
>If I format the drives using FWB's driver, will that cause any (known)
>problems for the YDL installer?
3rd party formatters should never be an issue for Linux. The only
thing they do that is different from Apple's utils is to put their
proprietary MacOS drivers on driver partitions instead of Apple's
proprietary MacOS drivers. Linux doesn't use MacOS driver
partitions, hence it couldn't care less whose set of drivers are
present -- all it needs is a valid partition table.
>What are people generally using to format non-apple drives?
>Thanks in advance-
These days, Apple's own utilities.
-- Tim Seufert
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