[X4U] Windows external USB drives and Tiger

[Kansas Territory]

On Jun 16, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Stroller wrote:

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> On Jun 16, 2005, at 7:43 pm, Kansas Territory wrote:
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>> Should I be able to mount a friends USB external hard drive onto  
>> my Tiger Dual G4 Computer ?  but just plugging it into an  
>> available USB port ?
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> If you keep posting the same thing often enough, someone will tell  
> you "it depends on whether it's formatted FAT32 or NTFS"

oops sorry, I didn't think the first post made it through.

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>> I tried it, but nothing showed up on my desktop ?  This on a  
>> machine running Tiger..
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>> I just now tried hooking up this same drive to a G4/450  running  
>> OSX 10.3x  and the drive did show up.  So I can copy stuff over my  
>> network, but sure would be nice if I get it to show up on my main  
>> computer which runs Tiger.
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> That's weird. Does the drive require an external power source? I  
> have one which will draw power off about half the USB machines I  
> connect it to - the other half require me to connect a PSU.

I don't have an external power source to plug it up with..    Doesn't  
matter which mac I hook it to, the drive lights up like it wants to  
work. But only works on the G4/450 (panther)  not the Dual G4 (tiger)

Kansast
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