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Firewire formats - PC and Mac
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 |
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"Nace" wrote in message ups.com... 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 wrote:
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.) FAT-32 looks like the best common ground between Windows and the Mac, given that Windows doesn't know what OS-Extended is, and the Mac may have similar problems with NTFS. |
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"Nace" 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. -- "It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!" - Lorin David Schultz in the control room making even bad news sound good (Remove spamblock to reply) |
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2. Buy MacDrive software. Then your XP box will read HFS drives.
Format the drive with the Mac and you're good to go. This is by far the better of the two choices. MacDrive is good software. -John O |
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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" 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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"David Morton" wrote in message k... In article HcFpe.47538$9A2.24376@edtnps89, (Lorin David Schultz) wrote: XP won't read HFS drives, and OSX won't read NTFS. Not meaning to nit-pick, and just for information: OSX has been able to read NTFS partitions since Panther (10.3). The problem is that it can't yet write to them properly, even in the current Tiger (10.4) release. Given that I have a wayward daughter with a Mac laptop, thanks for this key information. ;-) |
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"David Morton" wrote:
Not meaning to nit-pick, and just for information: OSX has been able to read NTFS partitions since Panther (10.3). The problem is that it can't yet write to them properly, even in the current Tiger (10.4) release. If you say so. Ours won't. -- "It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!" - Lorin David Schultz in the control room making even bad news sound good (Remove spamblock to reply) |
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In article iCrqe.44807$on1.9867@clgrps13, (Lorin
David Schultz) wrote: If you say so. Ours won't. 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. |
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"David Morton" 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. -- "It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!" - Lorin David Schultz in the control room making even bad news sound good (Remove spamblock to reply) |
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In article F6_ue.56133$wr.25136@clgrps12, (Lorin
David Schultz) wrote: Far out. Ours wants to reformat the drive. You've got me stumped there, because read-only NTFS support is a standard Tiger feature (and was a standard Panther feature before that) and shouldn't need anything installing or tweaking. Weird. |