Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ErikRS Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: What app formats a hard disk? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:22:01 +0100 Organization: solani.org Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <531cc05e$0$52827$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: solani.org 1394731321 2660 eJwFwYEBACAEBMCVSryM88T+I3RnBxvlCoPa2OAt5lVkUAX2upmywkunj1HoI4rGsO6u6A8oshHE (13 Mar 2014 17:22:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:22:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Firefox/16.0 SeaMonkey/2.13.2 X-User-ID: eJwFwYERgDAIA8CVSiGJjoMc2X8E/5EMjopgwfD6Y1Syho2089r1nDcD0NHVtCfYu8Ig8AMYJRDW In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:HtABTzz68JLl8xw7m6ws6zQZfRQ= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwNy8kBwDAIA7CVcLjccSCU/Udo9ZdrIG5aeJivbyl6JB0vqEZJIbseHhM7FzPMW9LA7vwlPgTFEGM= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:21520 David Ryeburn wrote: > ErikRS wrote: >> An Intel based Mac needs GUID partition map to be able to boot > > Not true. I have two APM formatted Firewire drives which will boot Inte= l > Macs as well as PPC Macs. What is true is that the Intel Mac system > software will not INSTALL onto an APM formatted drive. If however you > CLONE Intel Mac system software onto an APM formatted drive, the result= > will boot an Intel Mac. This is useful if you have both Intel and PPC > Macs and an external drive with several partitions intended to be used > to boot up various computers. > >> and a PowerPC Mac needs APM partition map... > > True. A PPC Mac can see the data on a GUID partition map drive and can > write to it, but cannot boot from it. > > Caution: My observations are for Mac OS up through 10.6. I do not know > if what I wrote is true for 10.7 and higher because I have not tried it= =2E Strange... I had a 'total nervous breakdown' (dead HD) on my 10.5.8 on=20 my MacPro 1.1. 'Luckily' I had a clone (CCC) on an external 500gb=20 Mercury Firewire HD - also meant for my G5 PowerPC running 10.5.8, so I=20 tried /many/ times to boot the MacPro from this disk. No luck at all -=20 no matter which method I used to try to boot it. the G5 booted fine... The clone was made from my MacPro to have the two machines identically=20 setup with apps, system, prefs etc.. Used the APM since I too was told=20 that it would work on both, but it doesn't... Cheers, Erik Richard --=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard S=F8rensen, Member of ADC, NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~