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Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar> wrote:

> And four disc volumes means if a volume's damaged beyond fixing, I can
> do a backup and reformat (not low level) just copying files across to
> another volume.

I've just installed a new internal drive in my 4400 (ATA/IDE, not SCSI)
and found that just copying all files from the old drive to the new left
quite a few behind, about 10-20 I think. What was not copied? At least
some invisible files were copied, so that's not the answer, and the few
invisible files at the root directory, like AppleShare PDS, didn't
account for the large number missing (I can't remember now which ones
were/weren't copied).

I resorted to a backup and reinstall using Zip disks and Dantz Diskfit
Direct that came with the drive. This copied all but 2 files from the
old disk to the new.

> Who knows?  It's not the formatting itself that's terribly relevant, but
> the driver software.  As far as I can tell, all the third party Mac
> formatters claim to have more reliable and faster drivers.

It seems that Apple's Drive Setup supports a fair few drives now. The
disk I got was intended for PCs (ie not sold specially for Macs) and
Drive Setup worked fine (I'm not saying it will work for all drives, I
don't know). The advantage to this over third party software is obvious
(it's free, as are the updates), even if the others claim to be better
in some ways.

By the way, it seems you can't use two drives on one ATA bus as
master/slave (0/1) in a 4400, though I hear the new G3s can?

Chris.