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From: crs@quail.swcp.com (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Disk drive question
Date: 28 Jun 1997 14:50:40 -0600
Organization: Just me, Los Alamos, NM
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I've been thinking of adding a second disk drive to my FreeBSD 2.1.5
box when funds permit. I vaguely remember seeing something in this
news group about Mac suppliers being a good place to get decent
prices on SCSI stuff so I've begun to look.
One place I've looked has the following at the beginning of the
disk-drive price list:
"All hard drives are formatted for Macintosh."
Now common sense tells me that that should not be a problem and
that reformatting should cure that. But I've been burned by
believing common sense before....
So--is this a problem or not? If I were to buy such a disk drive,
will I be able to use it with FreeBSD?
Thanks for any information.
--
Best regards,
Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby Los Alamos, NM "I'm the NRA!"
crs@swcp.com www.swcp.com/~crs Life Member since 1965