Re: focus drive formatting

[Barry Rees <Barry.Rees@prodigy.net>]

Godhead wrote:
> 
> In article <5apnvt$u4i@apollo.csd.net>, tdiaz@hypermall.com (Tony Diaz) wrote:
> 
> > Godhead (god@heaven.com) wrote:
> > : My 200MB focus drive came from alltech partitioned into 7 drives.  I would
> > : like to partition it into one 32 MB Prodos drive and one 168 MB HFS drive.
> > : Is this possible?  If so, how?
> >
> >
> > Two things:
> >
> > One: I don't recommend HFS on the Focus drive, or any other NON SCSI drive
> > that you can't connect to a Mac to fix you partition when it fails. Not if,
> > but when. It will. Patch or No Patch. Bad Things happen with HFS partitions.
> >
> > Two: You need to use the Focus Partition software to do that, ADU doesn't
> > quite work afterall. I know the Focus Partition program is tedious to
> > partition with, but thats all there is right now.
> >
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> well, I can't seem to get it to format the HFS at all.  I guess I'm stuck
> with 7 partitions.  I just wanted to clean up my dekstop.
> JB
> --
No, actually, you are not stuck with seven partition. While the Focus
partitioning software is tedious, in my experience it works fine. But
you might want to consider saving yourself some (unnecessary) grief.
Stick with ProDos only partitions, especially with a Alltech Focus Drive
because there is physically absolutely no way for you to fix a HFS
problem if (when) it arises.

Barry Rees