cidion
Supervised Member of life
Hi there,
I'm not sure if this should be posted here, but It might work...if not ...whoops
here goes...
I have 2 drives.
One of them is an 80GB It's named: Frozengoat. it's got files on it, that's about it.
The other 60GB drive is partitioned into three sections:
they are named:
OS X (guess what's on that one) 10GB
OS 9 (ditto) 10GB
APPZ (just files on here actually, no applications) 40GB
I use OS X 98% of the time, occationally rebooting in OS 9 to pay online bills, and play the occational game.
BUT, when I restart in OS 9 on the OS 9 partition, I can't see Frozengoat.
While in OS 9, I have used Norton Utilities to determine that the Disk Driver on Frozengoat, is bad, and I must reinstall it.
Now, while i'm in OS X, I can see, and use the drive like normal, but in OS 9, I can't. the only way I'm able to see the drive while in OS 9, is with norton, and rescanning the busses and finding the "missing" drive.
Because of this, I'm assuming that OS X doesn't use the same drivers that OS 9 uses. so I went to see how to update the OS 9 disk drivers.
the method that I found to update OS 9 drivers was this:
While in OS 9, open the disk utility, select the drive that you want to update, and choose "update disk drivers" from one of the menus.
Now, the only problem is this: while in OS 9, I can't see Frozengoat, so therefore I can't select it to update the drivers.
So I figured I would update it in OS X. so I booted up in OS X. since OS X doesn't use the same drivers as OS 9 does, there isn't the option to update the OS 9 drivers on the disk.
Right now, the only way I can think of or find to reinstall the drivers is to reformat it.
But I still have files on it, and can use those files in OS X just fine. Since I use OSX about 98% of the time, reformatting that drive isn't really something I want to do.
Since the drive has no system software on it, booting from a CD doesn't offer any different options than booting from the OS X or OS 9 drive.
Hope this helps explain it.
cidion
I'm not sure if this should be posted here, but It might work...if not ...whoops
here goes...
I have 2 drives.
One of them is an 80GB It's named: Frozengoat. it's got files on it, that's about it.
The other 60GB drive is partitioned into three sections:
they are named:
OS X (guess what's on that one) 10GB
OS 9 (ditto) 10GB
APPZ (just files on here actually, no applications) 40GB
I use OS X 98% of the time, occationally rebooting in OS 9 to pay online bills, and play the occational game.
BUT, when I restart in OS 9 on the OS 9 partition, I can't see Frozengoat.
While in OS 9, I have used Norton Utilities to determine that the Disk Driver on Frozengoat, is bad, and I must reinstall it.
Now, while i'm in OS X, I can see, and use the drive like normal, but in OS 9, I can't. the only way I'm able to see the drive while in OS 9, is with norton, and rescanning the busses and finding the "missing" drive.
Because of this, I'm assuming that OS X doesn't use the same drivers that OS 9 uses. so I went to see how to update the OS 9 disk drivers.
the method that I found to update OS 9 drivers was this:
While in OS 9, open the disk utility, select the drive that you want to update, and choose "update disk drivers" from one of the menus.
Now, the only problem is this: while in OS 9, I can't see Frozengoat, so therefore I can't select it to update the drivers.
So I figured I would update it in OS X. so I booted up in OS X. since OS X doesn't use the same drivers as OS 9 does, there isn't the option to update the OS 9 drivers on the disk.
Right now, the only way I can think of or find to reinstall the drivers is to reformat it.
But I still have files on it, and can use those files in OS X just fine. Since I use OSX about 98% of the time, reformatting that drive isn't really something I want to do.
Since the drive has no system software on it, booting from a CD doesn't offer any different options than booting from the OS X or OS 9 drive.
Hope this helps explain it.
cidion