Firewire formats - PC and Mac

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"Nace" <justin.nace@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> Hey,
>
> Im interning at a studio right now and got the go ahead to use it when
> its not booked. I went out a got a external firewire drive so I can
> take what I do in the studio home. But the studio uses mac and I have
> PC. What is the best choice to format my new drive to so that I may use
> it on both pc and mac to read and right files ...FAT 32 ( for which
> there is no option on windows) or maybe OS-Extended ( does this really
> work im not very certain.)
>
> Your suggestions are appreachiated.
>
> J. Nace
>

By "OS-Extended" I think you mean Mac's HFS+, which can be "extended" to
very small block sizes, which save a lot of space for boot drives with lots
of small files. For audio where most files are larger than 10MB the
difference is not appreciable since HFS+ results in much larger directory
trees that are more susceptible to problems. Standard HFS is still common
in studios.

Moot point though, you're probably best served with FAT32, but there's also
NTFS which Macs used to have trouble dealing with, that may have changed
though. FAT32 might limit you to a 128GB drive size limit though, double
check if you're getting something larger.

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"Nace" <justin.nace@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> What is the best choice to format my new drive to so that I may use
> it on both pc and mac to read and right files ...FAT 32 ( for which
> there is no option on windows) or maybe OS-Extended



XP won't read HFS drives, and OSX won't read NTFS. You have two
choices:

1. Format your drive FAT32. It doesn't come up as an option in the
usual place under XP, but I accidentally found a way to do while looking
for something else one day. If I could remember what that way was, I
would tell you! <g> The point is, it *is* possible.

2. Buy MacDrive software. Then your XP box will read HFS drives.
Format the drive with the Mac and you're good to go.

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If you type "format /?" in a "cmd" window it will tell you all the
options, including the use of /FS:FAT32 which will create a FAT32 file
system.

--Peter

Lorin David Schultz wrote:
> "Nace" <justin.nace@rogers.com> wrote:
>
>>What is the best choice to format my new drive to so that I may use
>>it on both pc and mac to read and right files ...FAT 32 ( for which
>>there is no option on windows) or maybe OS-Extended
>
>
>
>
> XP won't read HFS drives, and OSX won't read NTFS. You have two
> choices:
>
> 1. Format your drive FAT32. It doesn't come up as an option in the
> usual place under XP, but I accidentally found a way to do while looking
> for something else one day. If I could remember what that way was, I
> would tell you! <g> The point is, it *is* possible.
>
> 2. Buy MacDrive software. Then your XP box will read HFS drives.
> Format the drive with the Mac and you're good to go.
>

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Thanks man thats helpful.

Does anyone know what the deal is with OS-Extended, by that I mean what
is it, how is it different. The studio owner seems to think it will
allow the drive to work with PC, but I havent tested it.

Any thoughts

jn

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In article <HcFpe.47538$9A2.24376@edtnps89>, Lorin@DAMNSPAM!v5v.ca (Lorin
David Schultz) wrote:

> XP won't read HFS drives, and OSX won't read NTFS.

Not meaning to nit-pick, and just for information: OSX has been able to
read NTFS partitions since Panther (10.3). The problem is that it can't
yet write to them properly, even in the current Tiger (10.4) release.

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"David Morton" <dmorton@well.com> wrote:
>
> Not meaning to nit-pick, and just for information: OSX has been able
> to read NTFS partitions since Panther (10.3). The problem is that it
> can't yet write to them properly, even in the current Tiger (10.4)
> release.



If you say so. Ours won't.

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"David Morton" <dmorton@well.com> wrote:
>
> Here's what 'Get Info' shows when I plug a FireWire NTFS drive into
> a Tiger Mac http://www.well.com/~dmorton/NTFSFireWire.jpg
>
> The dates are screwed, and it's read only, but it mounts and data
> transferred of these drives is fine.



Far out. Ours wants to reformat the drive.

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