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Things to do with a removable FireWire drive enclosure
Authored by: mayodreams on Mar 10, '03 11:31:29AM

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.



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Things to do with a removable FireWire drive enclosure
Authored by: clmensch on Mar 10, '03 01:04:07PM

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!


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Things to do with a removable FireWire drive enclosure
Authored by: raider on Mar 11, '03 11:46:47AM
Actually, there is open source support for NTFS under several OSs:

Linux

Other OSs

Heck, to some extent - NTFS is workable under just about any OS you can find...

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Things to do with a removable FireWire drive enclosure
Authored by: PhilMathon on Apr 01, '04 04:11:03AM

OSX 10.3 can now read NTFS drives (New Technology File System) for this Micro$oft format.

Secondly, under Window$ you have the option (in Computer Management) to disable the disc cache which will let you safely unplug a FW or USB drive without first ejecting it.

Philippe



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Things to do with a removable FireWire drive enclosure
Authored by: nox on Mar 10, '03 07:13:03PM

I bought a Yamaha F1 IDE drive and used an old QueFire 12x Firewire
CDR Shell for it , that was laying waround the office. I purchased the
drive for 90 bux , normally this drive in Firewire would cost me 300. I did
have to purchase the Etch Software for like 20 bux for the DISCT@2
feature Yamaha F1 Drives , I already owned Toast , which supports this
drive with the 5.2 Update.



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