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success on 10.2
Authored by: krishna on Nov 30, '02 11:08:34PM

I've got a combo 1394/USB 80GB drive. I hooked it up to an Inspiron
8100 running win2k, partitioned it into 20GB/30GB/30GB partitions (I
also had problems with 40GB partitions) and formatted it using FAT32
and the defaults (all via the windows disk administrator).

I then hooked it up to my Tibook/800 via firewire and it mounted all
the partitions and stuck them on the desktop as three different
firewire drive icons, with the volume names I specified during the
win2k format.

I've copied stuff back and forth from my internal HFS+ drive to the
FAT32 drives (to drain and recondition a new battery I bought) and
have gotten decent transfer rates so far (~500MB/min), and no
problems. Strangely, when I formatted the partitions as FAT32 via
Linux (partition type 0xc, FAT32 LBA mode), and mounted them similarly
on my Tibook, I got about half the transfer rate (probably due to the
default blocksize of "mkfs -t vfat -F 32" or some such).

One last thing -- I used my iTunes music directory to serve as a large
load to copy back and forth to the FAT32 partitions. FAT32 won't
handle some punctuation; in particular, I had to change the
doublequote (e.g., '12" single'), question mark ('What is love?'), and
asterisk ('5,000,000*') in filenames to other characters to prevent
the copy from failing.



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