[1394] Re: Mac Firewire Drives on PC

jeff chasick jchasick at mac.com
Wed Oct 1 10:06:44 PDT 2003


I think its a 3G limit for FAT32, but not absolutely certain.

As I mentioned, while I don¹t know the names of the software packages, there
are software packages available for PC's that will read HFS volumes.

You can check in the PC section of versiontracker.com for those


> Doesn't this reintroduce the 2gb file size limit??
>> 
>> Normally you would format the drive as a FAT32 drive so that Mac and PC can
>> read the drive.
> 
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