It is possible to partition an IDE hard drive on a Macintosh using Apple's Drive Setup software.

Drive Setup is supported on all of the current Power Macintosh computers and 68LC040 computers that have IDE drives installed. This includes all the original Power Macintosh machines as well as the new PCI-based Power Macintosh computers. The Power Macintosh upgrade card is not supported.

Drive setup 1.0 shipped with the Power Macintosh 9500/120 and 9500/132. Drive Setup replaces both Apple HD SC Setup and Internal HD Format utilities. Drive Setup 1.0.2 is available on online services. With Drive setup you may partition Apple hard drives as follows:

1 HFS Volume

2 HFS Volumes

3 HFS Volumes

4 HFS Volumes

5 HFS Volumes

6 HFS Volumes

7 HFS Volumes

8 HFS Volumes

1 ProDOS, 1 HFS Volume

2 ProDOS, 1 HFS Volume

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