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LaCie d2 drive and Apple formating vs Silverlining?
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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
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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.
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Just make sure you update the firmware on the drive!
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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
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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.
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