[P1] firewire drive format?

[Mike Beede]

On Thursday, Jan 30, 2003, at 00:04 US/Central, Charles Martin wrote:

>> From: Alric.J.Lam at Dartmouth.EDU (Alric J. Lam)
>> I would like to use my firewire hard drive to store files from both 
>> my iBook at
>> home and my PC at work.  Are there any advantages or disadvantages to 
>> formatting
>> with HFS+ as opposed to FAT32 or NTFS?  I've heard that OSX will read 
>> PC
>> formats, while Win XP needs extra software (like MacDrive 5) to read 
>> mac
>> formatted disks.  I would rather not pay for software at this time, 
>> so I am
>> leaning towards formatting it with a PC format, but I'd first like to 
>> know if
>> there are any problems that might occur on the Mac side if I do that.
>>
> You will likely destroy the Mac data you attempt to put on that drive. 
> PC-formatted drives don't know from resource forks.

NTFS supports multiple streams (they have to call them something else). 
  I
understood the only use for this was for Mac files, which suggests that
it might Just Work.  I can't say one way or the other, since I've never
had a reason to try it.

	Mike