Installation guide

Chapter 2: Connecting SCSI Drives 11
Mounting an HFS Drive
If the MacOpener utility is installed and en-
abled, no additional steps are required to mount
HFS drives. They will appear as normal system
drives after you connect them and restart your
computer.
Formatting and Maintaining HFS
(and HFS+) Drives
While it is possible to use MacOpener to format
HFS (and HFS+) drives from a Windows ma-
chine, this can yield unpredictable results. If
you need to format an HFS drive, connect it to a
Macintosh computer and use the ExpressPro-
Tools software from ATTO (included with
Pro Tools).
Don’t Use Windows Disk Utility
Software on HFS Drives
Disk utility software for the Windows platform
(such as Norton Utilities for Windows) should
not be used on HFS drives. These utilities do not
recognize HFS-formatted drives and may try to
reformat them. This could cause format errors
on the HFS drive and result in data loss.
If you need to perform disk maintenance on an
HFS-formatted drive, connect the drive to a
Macintosh computer and use a Macintosh util-
ity.
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