Do i have to format my drives with Atto software?

[Gnosis]

Just wondering if i have to format my hard drives with the Atto software or can i use drives formatted with the regular mac os 9 format ?

[uno1234]

Glyph says drive setup, Digi says ATTO (depends who you talk to at Digi...)

Does anyone know?

[lionel wong]

yes, i kinda want to know more about this too.

does all SCSI HDD connected to the ATTO card have to be formatted by the ATTO Express pro-tools software?

LW.

[CPettigrew]

Originally posted by lionel wong:
yes, i kinda want to know more about this too.

does all SCSI HDD connected to the ATTO card have to be formatted by the ATTO Express pro-tools software?

LW.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">No! Probably better if you don't. I use Hard Disk Toolkit 4.5 and then click "Inhibit Driver Loading" on the ATTO software. Works like a charm.

Craig

[maxserg]

To reply: I say NO!

[DigiTechSupt]

SCSI Drives attached to your ATTO Card, should be initialized with ATTO ExpressPro-Tools.

For the exciting details, go here:

http://answerbase.digidesign.com/detail.cf m?DID=7349

Steve

[tnie]

I'm hearing that people are using SCSI cards other than Atto with good results any comments? It's funny how Digi will only support the Atto.. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

[legativity]

I tried the Atto unsuccessfully.
Formatted Apple and then wrote Hard Disk Tool Kit drivers onto drives. No problems now.

[tld]

Strange...I use two 9GB Seagate Barracudas on my ATTO SCSI card...both formatted with Apple Drive utility using hfs+. Never had a problem, and while my sessions are usually not too big, I did test 64 track record and playback with no problem.

This is with a stock 9600/350, OS 9.0.4, PT 5.1.1.

Tom