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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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