Firewire drive for both Mac & PC

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Firewire drive for both Mac & PC

Posted by Les Kaye on December 13, 2006 at 12:44 am

Here’s my dilemma:
I’ve got a new 300g Seagate firewire/usb drive. When I format it and write to it on a Quad G5 it’s not recognized when connected to a WinXP PC. When I format the drive in WinXP, it IS recognized by the G5, but I can’t write to it – no permissions. However, re-format it on the Mac and it’s writeable.

I tried to reformat the drive in Windows, creating 2 partitions, without formatting the second partition. Same problem – the G5 will mount and recognize, but no write access. Plus the drive appears as a single partition on the G5.

I guess the word at this point is HELP…

Thanks

Ed Dooley replied 19 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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December 13, 2006 at 2:10 am

if you are using the drive for video in FCp then it MUST be mac formated. The only disc format that is fully supported (read & write) on both win & mac is FAT 32 and it is a very slow format.
Ed Dooley
December 13, 2006 at 3:05 am

Use this product:
https://www.mediafour.com/products/
You format the drive for Mac and this product, MacDrive,
installs on a PC and recognizes the Mac formatted drive.
There are other products, but this is the most common I think.
Ed
Les Kaye
December 13, 2006 at 7:18 am

Thanks to all…

First, the drive will not be used as a media drive in FCP, just to backup files. While the 2 previously created WinXP partitions were not recognized on the G5, going into the Mac Drive Utility was the solution. I was able to format the second partition there, and it seems to have left the PC partition intact.

And Amazon is having a special on MacDrive for $24.99, so I ordered it earlier (there’s also a five day free trial on the MacDrive website).
Alan Lacey
December 13, 2006 at 5:28 pm

Does anyone know why MacDrive6 is only available in the US?

All the sites I’ve visited say “only shipped within the US”

In in UK and the only reference I can find to it over here is a – no longer available add on Amazon.co.uk for MacDrive2000

Thanks Alan
Ed Dooley
December 13, 2006 at 10:38 pm

Because it’s 60hz 120v? Sorry, couldn’t resist. I don’t know why.
Ed

[Alan Lacey] “Does anyone know why MacDrive6 is only available in the US?

All the sites I’ve visited say “only shipped within the US”

In in UK and the only reference I can find to it over here is a – no longer available add on Amazon.co.uk for MacDrive2000″

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