Re: [Fed-Talk] Formatting MXI Security drives as HFS+
Re: [Fed-Talk] Formatting MXI Security drives as HFS+
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Formatting MXI Security drives as HFS+
- From: Rich Trouton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 19:34:53 -0400
On Apr 3, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Rich Trouton wrote:
I figured out a way around the problem, though it's not my
favorite. I installed a trial version of MacDrive onto my copy of
XP running in Parallels, then used its HFS+ formatting tool to
reformat the Outbacker MXP. I unplugged the drive, stopped
Parallels, plugged the Outbacker back in and had it mount as an HFS
+ formatted drive. Doesn't look like the drive's bootable (at
least on my MacBook Pro,) but it's behaving itself otherwise.
Interesting that this solution works. For what it's worth, Macs (as
far as I have been able to determine) don't support booting from
USB flash media, no matter the filesystem. Nonetheless, it's
interesting that MacDrive was able to do this, and Disk Utility
wasn't, if the flash drive wasn't enforcing FAT.
The Outbacker is an external USB 2.0 hard drive, so it's not flash
memory. My MacBook Pro should theoretically been able to boot off of it.
Does Disk Utility show it as Mac OS Extended? Is it Journaled, by
any chance (not a big deal on a flash drive; just wondering)? What
happens if you try to erase and/or partition/format it with Disk
Utility again, now that it's HFS+?
Disk Utility is now seeing it as Mac OS Extended. There's still
problems with reformatting or otherwise erasing it with Disk Utility,
as Disk Utility will try to work with the drive and finally report an
input/output error. I've tried a couple of times and wound up going
back to MacDrive both times to reformat. Partitioning with Disk
Utility also doesn't work.
- Dave
Thanks,
Rich
On Apr 3, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
On Apr 3, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Rich Trouton wrote:
Has anyone worked with MXI Security's Stealth MXP flash drives
or Outbacker MXP hard drives? I'm evaluating them as part of
NHGRI's efforts to get secure external storage, as these are
both FIPS 140-2 certified. So far, they work fine on the Mac I'm
testing them on with one problem: I can't format them as
anything except FAT32. Needless to say, I'd like to try to
format them as HFS+, but Disk Utility chokes with an I/O error
every time. Anybody dealt with this before and can tell me how
to fix it?
Stealth MXP: http://www.mxisecurity.com/?p=products&i=stealth_mxp
Outbacker MXP: http://www.mxisecurity.com/?
p=products&i=outbacker_mxp
Chances are there is no way around this. Many USB flash media
devices force FAT32.
- Dave
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