[X4U] Windows external USB drives and Tiger

[Andrew J. Yon III]

> On Jun 16, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Kansas Territory wrote:
>
> 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 ?
>
> I tried it, but nothing showed up on my desktop ?  This on a  
> machine running Tiger..
>
> 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.
>
>
> Kansast




I do it everyday with almost all brands of windows on all sizes of  
drives and manufacturers . none failed to mount yet except for some  
with bad sectors.

FW800 dual 1.25 Tiger 10.4.1

Andy3

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