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Things to do with a removable FireWire drive enclosure
I bought a 40gig WD HD for my G4 from a friend and he had put 30gigs of mp3's on it for me. I put it in my PC and copied off what I wanted and took it out and was going to format it on the Mac. Much to my surprise, once in the Mac, the drive mounted perfectly and I could read and write to it without incident. It was formatted with FAT32 and I am pretty sure NTFS isn't support in OSX, but it may very well be.
Things to do with a removable FireWire drive enclosure
Yes, the NTFS filesystem not supported on any other OS than Windows, and it doesn't look like it will EVER be supported. In addition, you have to be very careful when using a FAT32 firewire drive between Windows and OSX. If you do not properly dismount the drive in Windows (i.e. simply unplug it), the drive will never mount on OSX again until you reformat it. You might be able to repair it without reformatting it, but I'm not sure. I know this from experience...trust me, it's ugly. Thanks, Microsoft!
Things to do with a removable FireWire drive enclosure
Things to do with a removable FireWire drive enclosure
OSX 10.3 can now read NTFS drives (New Technology File System) for this Micro$oft format.
Things to do with a removable FireWire drive enclosure
I bought a Yamaha F1 IDE drive and used an old QueFire 12x Firewire |
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