| Author | Message | ||
     LazyDog Citizen Username: Lazydog Post Number: 364 Registered: 6-2005  |
I believe that using NTFS I can read and write from Windows, but only read from Mac OSX. Anyone know how I can use an external harddrive to read and write on both platforms ? | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider  Post Number: 15426 Registered: 1-2003  |
I don't think MacOS understands NTFS, and I know Windows doesn't know HFS+ (the Apple filesystem). Windows can read and write FAT filesystems, and Apples might be able to also. List of file systems | ||
| Alleygater Citizen Username: Alleygater Post Number: 2532 Registered: 10-2004 |
I know this a question that Monster is going to be able to handle authortatively but...I believe you can format the drive for a PC and the Mac should be able to mount it. It's the PC that doesn't want to know about the Mac that is the issue. For that you can use Macopener I think it's called. A PC app that lets you mount mac formatted drives. | ||
| tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 5615 Registered: 5-2001 |
I have shares set up on both my WinXP laptop and my OSX desktop, and can access those shares from either computer without any special disk formatting. OSX does require that you allow Windows File Sharing, a service that uses Samba. | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 15429 Registered: 1-2003 |
File sharing is a network service, and it is mostly independent of filesystem layouts. Lazydog wants to connect physically a drive to both types of machines. That's different from what you're talking about, tom. | ||
| Eponymous Citizen Username: Eponymous Post Number: 222 Registered: 6-2004 |
Macs can read FAT drives. | ||
| tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 5619 Registered: 5-2001 |
my bad, didn't read carefully enough. | ||
| LazyDog Citizen Username: Lazydog Post Number: 367 Registered: 6-2005 |
In talking with Monster, he believes a drive formatted as FAT32 can be both read and written to with Win and OSX. | ||
| Eponymous Citizen Username: Eponymous Post Number: 223 Registered: 6-2004 |
FAT32 is in fact the formatting recommended by many for drives that need to be read by both OSes. Win iPods use it, and they can be read by Macs (though they won't boot them). | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 15433 Registered: 1-2003 |
Yes, FAT32 is a widely used standard. I should note, though, that it is less robust than both NTFS (of Windows) and HFS+ (of Apple). You increase the risk of losing files when you use FAT32. | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4605 Registered: 7-2002  |
If you remember, I also told you about MacDrive by Mediafour last night, this would allow you to format external derive as HFS+ and be able to use it from your Windows pc. It may be entirely possible that when Leopard comes out the ability to write to NTFS will be included, at least according to Anton Altaparmakov who is writing NTFS drivers for OS X, and is the lead developer for Linux-NTFS kernel over here.. Read this exchange, http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems.ntfs.devel/2597 |
