"journaled hard disks"

[Alex Rodriguez]

Hi:
I posted on other related threads my unfinished experience with a Acomdata firewire hard drive I received from a client. It's a 80 GB 7200 external firewire hard drive I received in a Mac-PC compatibility formatting that was not recognized by ProTools as an audio drive (for record or playback) so I found out about it on the Answerbase and erased it using Disk Utility and format it as MacOS Extended and it worked OK on my setup (002R, PT 6.1.2, PowerBook G4 1GHz, OS 10.2.8, etc.), so I could record and play audio tracks from it. Until I took it back to the studio I received it. There they have OS 10.3, the latest PT version accordingly (I don't remember now), PT HD, etc. But there, again PT doesn't recognize it as a valid drive, so I though it was a Panther versus Jaguar issue and tried to erase and reformat this hard drive, but noticing that on Panther, there is another format option: "Mac OS Extended (journalled), so I searched again on the Answerbase I found out it is recommended NOT to use the journaled option for audio drives:

Mac OS X 10.3 ships with journaling on by default. Digidesign recommends that customers format their media drives (record and playback drives) with journaling turned off. If you are using Apple's Disk Utility program to format drives, choose "Mac OS Extended" format, instead of "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".

So I tried to NOT use it, and tried to format in Mac OS Extended (I mean, without journaled), but I COULDN'T. I selected Mac OS Extended as the option for erasing this external fire drive, but after completion of erasing-formatting, which, by the way is really quick, the Disk Utility keeps on telling me it is Mac OS Extended Journaled formatted.
So, what am I missing here? How can I do that?
I remember on that thread some comments saying this Acmdata hard drive is not good for PTs, but I could use it on my system while I have it with me, and it's the seconnd client that shows up with a hard drive like that, so I would like to find a solution, if there's one.
Any light shared here'll be appreciated. Thanks in advance,
Alex

[tele_player]

After formatting, journaling can be enabled and disabled in Disk Utility. It doesn't change the format.

[Alex Rodriguez]

How?

[tele_player]

Select the partition, then look under File in the menu bar.

[Avid]

Correct:
http://answerbase.digidesign.com/detail.cfm?DID=27787