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Title: cross platform firewire harddrives question
Post by: nic on December 13, 2004, 11:42:50 AM

I'm looking to add a portable firewire drive that I can use with my OSX and XP machines.
XP can't read/write a Mac extended(HPFS) partition, but can OSX read/write a FAT partition?

any performance issues to be aware of with something like this?

gracias

Title: Re: cross platform firewire harddrives question
Post by: scb on December 13, 2004, 11:59:37 AM

it can read and write fat32, but only up to 137 gigs i think

Title: Re: cross platform firewire harddrives question
Post by: nic on December 13, 2004, 12:08:47 PM

just been reading through LaCies support section and it mentioned that.

anyone used MacDrive on a pc? supposedly this lets you use a HPFS partiton on a PC...wondering if there are any 'side effects' in the data, ie, copying from the HPFS firewire drive to a local NTFS drive.