[X-Newbies] Sharing External HD

[Steven Rogers]

On Jul 14, 2005, at 11:53 PM, Tony Johansen wrote:

> On 15/7/2005 11:22 AM, "Steven Rogers" <srogers1 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 14, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Tony Johansen wrote:
>>
>>> OK, firewire experiment underway soon as we get the FW cable.
>>>
>>> I now wonder: can this be done with a windows machine via an
>>> external harddrive, or more directly?
>>
>> You can take your firewire volume to a windows machine, but windows
>> machines will not go into "target" mode - that's a mac-only feature.
>> Show your Windows friends  . . . say 'neener neener'
>>
> OK, but would it work via a 3rd party device? Say a Fat-32  
> formatted external
> hard drive, plug into a Windows machine, put the files on the  
> external hard
> drive, then plug it into the Mac and access the files and work with  
> them on
> the Mac? (Presuming they are saved in jpeg or or other format that is
> recognised by programs on the Mac.)

Yes - the Mac can mount a FAT32 volume from firewire. (I think the  
iPod shuffle is FAT32). So you can movie files around from Mac to PC  
by a disk drive, which might or might not be in an iPod case.

SR