Unless we use a neutral file system, I've yet to find this to work.
Bob
Good day all,
I have bought a Seagate 300GB external drive. I use a PC with XP SP2, my wife uses a MAC (bcos it looks nice!) with OSX. We both want to use the drive but don't need to share the same data. The drive came formatted with FAT32 and my wife immediately 1394'd it on her MAC and put about 100GB of data on it. After that initial use my PC won't recognise the drive. I assume something exclusive happens when the drive is first plugged into either PC or MAC.
The question is: Can I somehow partition the drive so that say 150GB each can be read and written by each machine? ..... the MAC reading the MAC partition and the PC reading PC partition? IOW I USB connect it and see my 150GB, she 1394s it and sees her 150GB? The Seagate manual suggests that formatting the drive for 'sharing' data between the two OSs is not recommended - so I won't go there, unless anyone here says it can work without problems.
Thanks
Mark

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