Mac storage hardware, trouble formatting new LaCie Porsche 160G firewire hard drive

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Mac storage hardware >> trouble formatting new LaCie Porsche 160G firewire hard drive

by swebsurf » Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:35:40 GMT

Hi,

I believe I'm following the instructions properly when trying to format
my new LaCie firewire drive, but it is not showing up in the list of
available drives in the Disk Utilities application. It is, however,
showing up in the System Profiler utility. I'm running under Mac OS X
10.4.1.

thanks,

Scott

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