[1394] Mac Firewire Drives on PC

[jeff chasick]

Normally you would format the drive as a FAT32 drive so that Mac and PC can
read the drive.

There are some other utilities out there for the PC to allow it to read an
HFS volume, but formatting the drive as FAT32 on the PC is usually the
easiest and safest method to use


> I want to be able to connect my Mac formatted Firewire drives to a PC
> laptop but am told by DataViz Tech support that their MacOpener
> utility does not officially support Firewire, hinting cautiously that
> it may work but if it doesn't, don't call them. They DO support Mac
> iPod, however. MacOpener is primarily used to mount Mac Zips, Jaz,
> CDs for Windows users.
> 
> Has anyone had experience sharing Mac Firewire drives with Windows computers?
> 
> DaleH
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