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From: borton@sdcc3.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Init 800k disk as MFS???
Message-ID: <3224@sdcc3.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Apr-86 02:11:48 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcc3.3224
Posted: Fri Apr 11 02:11:48 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Apr-86 08:19:48 EST
References: <227@sivax.UUCP> <212@analog.UUCP> <11285@amdcad.UUCP>
Reply-To: borton@sdcc3.UUCP (Chris Borton)
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In article <11285@amdcad.UUCP> jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes:
>In article <212@analog.UUCP> kim@analog.UUCP (Kim Helliwell          ) writes:
>>I have no ideas, but so far, I have not been successful in INITing a 400K
>>disk as an HFS volume--I've tried holding the option key down and NOT holding
>>the option key, and I've tried both things in the DS drive and the SS drive--
>>nothing works.  I have the new ROM, finder 5.2, System 3.1.1 and of course,
>>the 800K internal drive.  Any ideas??
>
>You must hold down the option key while accepting the NAME for the disk.
>After the actual initialization of the disks is completed.
>I have done this, it does work.

Minor clarification: when initializing a disk FOR THE FIRST TIME holding down
the option key when you hit return after typing the name of the disk will
force HFS.  For disks already formatted as MFS, you must hold the option key
down and select Erase Disk; further holding of the option key may not be
necessary, but I held it the whole time and it worked on my SS drive, new
ROMs, System 3.1.1, Finder 5.2.

I must agree that this option business isn't the most intuitive in the world...

-Chris
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Chris Borton, UC San Diego Undergraduate CS; Micro Consultant, UCSD
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