[Toccatexx]

Hello
Im helping friends update a 3 mac system. they have a LaCie d2 firewire (new) HD. rather than use silverlining drivers and software, can I simply reformat the drive using the 10.3 disk utilites, for future simplicity in this setting?

less is more probably in this setting. I use silverling myself, but understand about a second driver.

thanks

Tocca

[Camali]

yes you can format the LaCie drive with Apple's Disk Utility. In fact somewhere in the LaCie documention I read just that!

Of course if you are using OS 9, in that same paragraph/page it says you should use LaCie's own Silverlining software.

When I first plugged in the d2 drive into G5 it showed up without having to install or run anything first.

[Landos Mustache]

Just make sure you update the firmware on the drive!

[Toccatexx]

Thank for all the help. as far as I can tell from the LaCie page, only the 800 d2 firewire drives need the firmware upgrade?

thanks Tocca

[CaseCom]

Originally posted by Toccatexx:
as far as I can tell from the LaCie page, only the 800 d2 firewire drives need the firmware upgrade?

Correct. There is an OS 9 firmware update for older FW400 drives, but the d2 FW400 drives don't need it.