Subject: Re: installing a new drive question
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 13:25:15 MDT
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> can i take a 4 gig ide drive that was in a pc-windows machine and install it
> in my powerpc 6500.
You can initialize the drive with MacOS drive setup so that it has a mac
partition map. Most standard drives work just fine.
> if i can,
> do i set it to slave mode and then install it
> then when i power up the mac, the mac should prompt for a reformat
> on that drive
shouldn't matter whether the drive is master or slave as long as you tell
the MacOS rive setup to initialize the correct one.
regards,
charles
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