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New ext. HD on it's way -- any advice?

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From: Tony Hall
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 00:00
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Hi,

Please excuse a non Demon subscriber posting here (if it's totally out
of order please forgive me) but I find this excellent newsgroup is
essential reading.

I've a shiny new 4Gb external drive winging it's way to me at the moment
(and I thought my 250Mb internal would be more than enough!) and would
appreciate people's advice....

As my Mac is a 68k I'm unable (I think) to use HFS+ so any
recommendations as to the best way to partition and organise this new
beast would be great?

Are there any advantages (speed, ease of use, features etc) to various
3rd party formatters? I believe the provided software is a licensed
version of 'Formatter One Pro' by Software Architects, I've never heard
of these (tho' I'm about to hunt them out on the web) but is there
superior formatting software out there?

The drive is from ONE Technologies and apparently uses IBM's DCAS 34330
engine -- any comments? (I've 7 days to return it if it's a complete
dog)

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and many thanks in advance for
any replies.

Cheers!
-- 
Tony
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
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From: news@tonyhall.prestel.co.uk (Tony Hall)
Subject: New ext. HD on it's way -- any advice?
Date: 1998/05/16
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