Re: And Speaking of Other Windows Crap

"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:13:05 -0500, "Steve King"

Moving even further into off topic..... If I format a drive on a PC as
FAT
16 can it be read by a MAC? If not, is there anyway that a drive can be
used by both PC and MAC?

Yes. OS X has no problem reading and writing FAT 16 partitions.

You can read NT filesystems, but not write them. In general, nobody
really
handles NT filesystems very well other than Windows, in part because
nobody
has really reverse-engineered them well enough and the internals are all
sadly undocumented.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Thanks. I thought that might be the case. Looking over my video editor's
shoulder, when he was preparing a new external drive, I noticed the option
in OSX to format to "DOS FAT 16". I'll format an external that way on my PC
and see if he can read it on OSX. If so, it would be convenient to deliver
to him a HD with video and audio files, rather than having to digitize from
tape at his facility. Since OSX did not offer FAT32 as an option, I assume
that would not work. It would be nice to have 4 GB maximum file size vs. 2
GB.

Steve King



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