<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 16, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Stroller wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Jun 16, 2005, at 7:43 pm, Kansas Territory wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Should I be able to mount a friends USB external hard drive onto my Tiger Dual G4 Computer ?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>but just plugging it into an available USB port ?</DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If you keep posting the same thing often enough, someone will tell you "it depends on whether it's formatted FAT32 or NTFS"</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>oops sorry, I didn't think the first post made it through. </DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I tried it, but nothing showed up on my desktop ?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>This on a machine running Tiger..</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I just now tried hooking up this same drive to a G4/450<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>running OSX 10.3x<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>and the drive did show up.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>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.</DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>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)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kansast</DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></BODY></HTML>