Re: Client number nine.

Jitze wrote:

So (finaly - here's my question) can I hang this drive on a
Macintosh USB port and see my files? I would have thought so,
but I'm reading some documentation about running Windows
on a Mac, and it says that any shared drive (*any*) must
be formatted as FAT32 and not NTSC, because the Mac
doesn't speak NTSC.

But, but, but, if I see it via a USB interface, surely
the question doesn't arise?

Alas, not so. The OS has to understand the filesystem in order to mount it as a drive. If you plug a USB drive with a strange filesystem into Windows, you'll see the USB device, and the mass-storage thing in the hardware, but you won't get a drive letter and won't be able to see any files.

OSX understands FAT32 easily enough, and I believe support for NTFS was added in v10.3 and 10.4. But I've sometimes had trouble getting NTFS to work smoothly again in Windows after other operating systems have had at it. They can screw up the SID numbers and you have to run the checkdisk utility to fix it. FAT32 doesn't have those problems, so is better provided you don't have files bigger than 2GB.

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Regards
John
for mail: my initials plus a u e
at tpg dot com dot au

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