| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 2 Jan 2000 at 11:13:50 |
| Subject: | Re: Maxtor drive |
On 02-Jan-00, Malcolm Harnden wrote:
> No need to do a low level format. Once installed and partitioned just
> click on the icon and format it with the format command.
>
> However now could be a good time to install PFS and turn this monster
> into your main drive.
Safer to do one thing at a time. Get it working reliably first, then
after a few weeks consider alternative file systems. Jumping a mile
forward and a kilometre sideways simultaneously is a recipe for trouble.
The new Boing Bag HDToolbox is good. I set up a 9 Gig drive with no
trouble at all. The defaults are now sensible for IDE drives.
Regards
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