| From: | Terry Fry |
| Date: | 1 Jan 2000 at 22:56:49 |
| Subject: | Re: Maxtor drive |
From: Terry Fry <mafutha@concentric.net>
Hello A.
On 01-Jan-00, A. J. wrote:
AJ> From: "A. J." <baron286@earthlink.net>
AJ>
AJ> Hi Guys,
AJ> I know that this may be off subject, but here goes.. I need a bit of
AJ> help.. I have just receive an maxtor 4.3 gig hard drive.. it is IDE..
AJ> and has been formatted for Ibm use.. What I need to know is can I
AJ> reformat it for amiga use, and if so do I low level format it.. I have
AJ> an amiga 4000, and it has a ide controler built in.. But I have never
AJ> used it but with the small drive that came with it.. I will assume I
AJ> would use the program that came with the compputer.. (never used that
AJ> too) Have always used scsi before.. Any advice will help...
AJ>
AJ> Thanks,
AJ> AJ
AJ>
Regards
JUst use hdtoolbox to set it up then format it with the format command. I
have a maxtor drive and that's what I did and it worked.
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