Re: Formatting GS HD?

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holc0007@tc.umn.edu (Todd Holcomb) wrote:
>I'm having problems formatting a 40MB hard drive on my GS.  It's an old Mac
>HD...  When I use GSOS 6.0.1 to format it, it has to format multiple small
>partitions that contains Mac driver information etc. so I get about 5 HD's
>on my desktop.  I can't get it to format it correctly in prodos on my Mac
>either...  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

Todd, sounds like you need to repartition the drive.  The way a GS works
and the way a Mac works when using their primary operating systems is
different.  The Mac stores drivers in a partition, but the GS stores them as
files in the System folder.  The Mac hides the partition with the drivers in
it, but the GS does not.  That means if you are using an old Mac drive,
you have to run the Advanced Disk Utilities, a program that comes with
System 6.0.1, to destroy the Macintosh scheme completely.

Steps:

1) Run Advanced Disk Utilities and select a partition on the Mac drive.
2) Delete all the partitions except one and resize that one to take up
    all the 40MB.
3) Press return.  The program asks if you want to low level format.
    answer yes.
4) Partition the disk as you like.  ProDOS partitions can only be 32MB,
    but if this is your second hard disk, you can have one big 40MB
    partition and format with HFS.
6) Click on the partition button.  After partitioning, format each partition
    with either ProDOS or HFS.

The Macintosh driver partitions should be gone.  One thing to remember
is that at step 3, Advanced Disk Utilities is going to ask you if you want
the drive to be readable on a Macintosh.  Answer no.  If want to answer
yes, you have to have the Macintosh driver from Mac System 6 in the
GS driver folder or it won't work and you would waste 128K on the disk
for nothing.