Firewire HD for PC and Mac...
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- illroot
So here's my problem, I work on a PC (I do alot of 3D work). I get alot of clients that are Mac based and they always need to drop like 5-10 gigs of stuff in my lap. Is there a way that I can have a firewire HD that I can hook up to both a PC and a Mac that both can recognize?
- illroot0
Let me elaborate, I need to be able to put stuff on this Firewire HD from a Mac and then retrieve it from a PC then add more stuff to it from my PC and then retrieve is from a Mac. Is that possible?
- illroot0
squishy- have you used this software first hand?
I'd like to know some details about the software:
-do I need it both on the Mac and the PC?
-does the Firewire HD have to be formatted for the Mac or PC?I guess I should contact the customer support to answer those questions. Just wanted to know if anyone used it firsthand.
- preston0
I use macdrive 5.
works awesome. you format your drive as a mac drive, and then you just need the software on the PC, and it'll read the mac drive like a pc drive.
- illroot0
the only problem with that is now since the drive is formatted for mac I can't plug it into any other PC unless it has MacDrive on it too. Is there anyway around that?
- kunga0
I have been using a 120gb Iomega firewire drive on a Mac and PC for nearly a year. Just make sure that it's formatted to Fat32, NOT NTFS otherwise the Mac will get pissed off! ;o)
- benfal990
The new LaCie are killing.
take the new Firewire800 proof
- phs0
um just format it for pc and use it on a mac, i have some shitty buslink 60gb and I just turned it on and its recognized on both. none of this disk util crap :D
- illroot0
phs, are you running OS X on your mac? from what I understand OS 9 has troubles recognizing PC stuff.
Appreciate all the help, thx.
- phs0
OS X here, but i transport files between my mac OS X, pc running win2k pro, and the shittier comps at school running 9.2. No problems at all, only issues i have are platform related (ie file types) otherwise works like a charm.
- illroot0
sounds good, i'll give that a try before doing stuff with MacDrive. Thanks.