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mounting drive under 9.2
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Doc HM
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Jan 5, 2010, 02:29 PM
 
Even when I install the OS9 drivers on an external hdd, it won't show up on an old G4 running 9.2. Any ideas why?

I'm thinking I need to dig out an old OS9 Mac and format it from there. I had an iMac running 9.2 a while back and it wouldn't spot a drive formatted using 10.5.

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Jan 5, 2010, 02:57 PM
 
Is it a USB2 drive? Does your G4 have USB2?

Even if it can't read the format, Drive Setup in OS 9 should still be able to see the drive if it's properly connecting to the Mac.
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Jan 7, 2010, 08:10 PM
 
You need to format the disk as HFS plus without journalling. OS 9 can't read Journaled OS X drives.
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It can't read the journal but it can still read a journaled partition.
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