[Ti] Combo USB/Firewire drives

[Lee Wilmeth]

Panther (10.3) recognizes, but can not write to NTFS. Jaguar (10.2.x) 
can read and write to FAT32. However, if the drive is just going to be 
used on a Mac, then HFS+ would be your best bet. If you are moving data 
between Windows and Mac, then FAT32 is your best bet. In Panther, you 
can format the drive as FAT32 from the Disk Utility program. On the PC 
side, you need a Win98 box to format that large of a drive in FAT32. 
Win2k and WinXP won't format a partition larger than 32 GB as FAT32. 
Otherwise it defaults to NTFS. Also, most drive partitioning software 
will allow you to format the drive at FAT32.

Hope this helps.

Lee

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On Jan 17, 2004, at 4:28 AM, giorgio gomelsky wrote:
>
> What would be best (and fastest transfer/copying) solution? And what
> filesystem format should I use. Does OsX 10.2.8 recognize NTFS?
> FAT and FAT32 have filsesize limitations, no good for long .mov files.
> What I'm asking really is, are USB/Firewire drives platform agnostic
> and for them to be so what filesystem is best?
>