Valkyrie Sound Posted February 23, 2003 Share Posted February 23, 2003 OK.... This should be really easy to do.... All I want to do is re-format a external Firewire drive with my MAC running OS 9 I tried using Drive setup and it sees the firewire drive.... but it says it can't initialize a drive that is "not supported". I've got drive setup V2.0.7 I can't find any updates at Apple... It can read the drive in PC format.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! This should be simple.... I must be an idiot... Please help.... Valky Valkyrie Sound: http://www.vsoundinc.com Now at TSUTAYA USA: http://www.tsutayausa.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
not Cereal Posted February 23, 2003 Share Posted February 23, 2003 i dont have any firewire drives, but have you tried "erase disk" in the "special" pull down menu? this works for non supported disks, like the iomega zip disks. might work, might not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Berolzheimer Posted February 23, 2003 Share Posted February 23, 2003 I went through this just the other day, with a firewire drive that came fromatted for PC. You have to turn off File Exchange, & then restart the computer. this way the mac won't recognize the foreign format & will ask you to reformat it, with HFS & HFS extended as the options. Good Luck, Valkie! PS after spending 20 or 30 minutes trying to figure it out, I found the answer in the little booklet that came with the drive. Paul Berolzheimer Progenitor of 2 amazing sound sources Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Sound Posted February 24, 2003 Author Share Posted February 24, 2003 [quote]Originally posted by Paul Berolzheimer: [b]I went through this just the other day, with a firewire drive that came fromatted for PC. You have to turn off File Exchange, & then restart the computer. this way the mac won't recognize the foreign format & will ask you to reformat it, with HFS & HFS extended as the options..[/b][/quote]Thanks! It kinda worked... I guess... It now is set up as a MAC drive but I can't do a full low level format..... Have you figured that out yet? [quote]Good Luck, Valkie! PS after spending 20 or 30 minutes trying to figure it out, I found the answer in the little booklet that came with the drive.[/QB][/quote]Aaah.... I buy all my drives OEM... I just get a drive and a static bag... no handy booklets.... ;) Valky Valkyrie Sound: http://www.vsoundinc.com Now at TSUTAYA USA: http://www.tsutayausa.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frost Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Some firewire drives have a problem formatting with standard mac tools. OWC ships their drives with "Hard Disk Speed Tools" by entech I think. It has worked very well for me and solved a lot of firewire probs. Drop me a line if you cant find a copy. Frost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beatheavy Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 You have to format the drive in HFS extended for the firewire drive to be bootable. You should use the apple utility Drive Setup. You should be sorted after that. ATOMIX! http://www.abc.net.au/common/logos/whtblkgrn.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Sound Posted February 24, 2003 Author Share Posted February 24, 2003 Thanks guys.... Beatheavy: I can't use Drive setup as it does not support firewire drives.... much to my surprise and dissapointment! I have MacOpener on my PC.... which formatted the drive (low level) perfectly.... Go figure.... I needed my PC to format my MAC drive! :eek: Problem solved for now.... I would like to know how to get a low level format on a firewire drive on my MAC! Valky Valkyrie Sound: http://www.vsoundinc.com Now at TSUTAYA USA: http://www.tsutayausa.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alon Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 When a mac wont allow formatting of a F/W drive, some people have placed the drive inside their g4 (internal), and then pop it back in the firewire case, when formatting is done. alon . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultravibe Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 What alon said. ALl firewire drives are just IDE drives in cases with a firewire plug. Remove it from the case, pop it in an open space inside the computer and format away. Then just pop it back in the case. You can also get something like Drive Tools or Hard Disk Toolkit, but I've heard of questionable results with those. YMMV. Andrew Mazzocchi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
where02190 Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 try formatting suing the Drive Set-up utility by booting from disc, not running form your system OS. Hope this is helpful. Hope this is helpful. NP Recording Studios Analog approach to digital recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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