Thanks guys for all the posts.

I guess I'll format my spare Ext HD FAT 32 and that solves that until Apple
fix the NTFS prob in the next OS

cheers again,

Martin

"Marc Wielage" wrote in message
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On Aug 2, 2004, Martin Quinn commented:

We tried to use a NTFS formatted external hard drive
with USB and FireWire connections but it seems that the MAC can't read
it
and I'm told the PC won't read the MAC.
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The former is true, but not the latter. At the moment, neither Mac OS9 or
OSX can write to NTFS-formatted drives. You can read Apple's statement
about
it he

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75320

I'm told that the next version of Mac OSX (10.3.5) will have some fixes
that
will make the OS work better with NTFS. They're very much aware of the
problem, and apparently it's also a problem with various flavors of Unix
(including some Linux systems).

As long as you use a FAT-32 drive, that will work with the Mac, no
problem.

--MFW
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"Martin Quinn" wrote in message
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Is there any translators/bridge software we can get to
let the MAC read the PC files and transfer them then
to the MAC (& vice versa).



The Mac will read a PC drive formatted as FAT32, but not NTFS.

The PC can be made to read/write to Mac drives with MacDrive:

You can get details he http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive5/

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