My question is this, IIO...
In order to boot from OS 9 from the enclosure (for emergencies), you have to initialize the two mini drives, in order to initialize them and partition them correctly). It says so in the pdf manual. They told me that it will work with OS 9, but I don't see how, because it uses OSX software to index the files, no matter what you do. So even if i set up and partition the mini maximus, it will still use OSX to handle the files when they get to the mini. I do not want OSX software anywhere near my song storage files. They told me when I purchased it that it would run in OS9 (just as their ad told me), but when I asked about the way the machine indexes and stores the files, they kept ignoring the fact that OSX files were going to be used by the mini for indexing the drives.Truth be known, they don't give a flying fuck about what happens to those files, but then they didn't spend the last 25 years recording them, I did! I read their ad on their site, and it says it is OS 9.2.2 compatible, but then I read the pdf, and got another story. They lied, or at best... they don't know. I do know this one thing...I won't use my cubase files to experiment with using their OSX hardware. They need to take the ad off their site.
I will not stop until I find out the best way to store these song files... but this I do know, they will not be placed anywhere near OSX hardware. I know that a lot of people think that OSX will not hurt these files, but I will not risk it.