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Fruit Based Computer Guys [message #92028] Fri, 26 October 2007 08:07 Go to next message
TCB is currently offline  TCB
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My band tracks to a G4 Mac from the mid-50's, then I take the tracks home
and edit/mix on my machine. I'm sick of burning DVDs to move the files back
to my place so I bought a 120 GB laptop drive and a teensy firewire case
that will fit in my gig bag. Should speed the process up notably.

Now then, I seem to remember that Fruit Based Computers can read one of the
two common Windows filesystems but not the other one. So, without installing
any additional software on my friends FBC, should I format the drive fat32
or ntfs?

Thanks,

TCB
Re: Fruit Based Computer Guys [message #92029 is a reply to message #92028] Fri, 26 October 2007 08:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Dedric Terry is currently offline  Dedric Terry   UNITED STATES
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Thad - FAT 32. If you format the drive on a Mac for HFS you have to use
MacOpener or something similar on
PC to read it (not sure if it works with firewire drives though).

I wish the two would use a common format - FAT 32 has a 2G file limit.

Dedric

"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote in message news:472202b4$1@linux...
>
> My band tracks to a G4 Mac from the mid-50's, then I take the tracks home
> and edit/mix on my machine. I'm sick of burning DVDs to move the files
> back
> to my place so I bought a 120 GB laptop drive and a teensy firewire case
> that will fit in my gig bag. Should speed the process up notably.
>
> Now then, I seem to remember that Fruit Based Computers can read one of
> the
> two common Windows filesystems but not the other one. So, without
> installing
> any additional software on my friends FBC, should I format the drive fat32
> or ntfs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> TCB
Re: Fruit Based Computer Guys [message #92030 is a reply to message #92029] Fri, 26 October 2007 08:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
TCB is currently offline  TCB
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Is this a Mac only thing? It's a 4GB file limit on XP using fat32.

And the Mac won't read and ntfs partition?

TCB

"Dedric Terry" <dterry@keyofd.net> wrote:
>Thad - FAT 32. If you format the drive on a Mac for HFS you have to use

>MacOpener or something similar on
>PC to read it (not sure if it works with firewire drives though).
>
>I wish the two would use a common format - FAT 32 has a 2G file limit.
>
>Dedric
>
>"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote in message news:472202b4$1@linux...
>>
>> My band tracks to a G4 Mac from the mid-50's, then I take the tracks home
>> and edit/mix on my machine. I'm sick of burning DVDs to move the files

>> back
>> to my place so I bought a 120 GB laptop drive and a teensy firewire case
>> that will fit in my gig bag. Should speed the process up notably.
>>
>> Now then, I seem to remember that Fruit Based Computers can read one of

>> the
>> two common Windows filesystems but not the other one. So, without
>> installing
>> any additional software on my friends FBC, should I format the drive fat32
>> or ntfs?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> TCB
>
Re: Fruit Based Computer Guys [message #92032 is a reply to message #92030] Fri, 26 October 2007 08:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Dedric Terry is currently offline  Dedric Terry   UNITED STATES
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Unfortunately not NTFS. And you are right - 4G - sorry about that. I'm
pretty sure that's the limit on OSX as well with FAT32.

Dedric

"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote in message news:47220556$1@linux...
>
> Is this a Mac only thing? It's a 4GB file limit on XP using fat32.
>
> And the Mac won't read and ntfs partition?
>
> TCB
>
> "Dedric Terry" <dterry@keyofd.net> wrote:
>>Thad - FAT 32. If you format the drive on a Mac for HFS you have to use
>
>>MacOpener or something similar on
>>PC to read it (not sure if it works with firewire drives though).
>>
>>I wish the two would use a common format - FAT 32 has a 2G file limit.
>>
>>Dedric
>>
>>"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote in message news:472202b4$1@linux...
>>>
>>> My band tracks to a G4 Mac from the mid-50's, then I take the tracks
>>> home
>>> and edit/mix on my machine. I'm sick of burning DVDs to move the files
>
>>> back
>>> to my place so I bought a 120 GB laptop drive and a teensy firewire case
>>> that will fit in my gig bag. Should speed the process up notably.
>>>
>>> Now then, I seem to remember that Fruit Based Computers can read one of
>
>>> the
>>> two common Windows filesystems but not the other one. So, without
>>> installing
>>> any additional software on my friends FBC, should I format the drive
>>> fat32
>>> or ntfs?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> TCB
>>
>
Re: Fruit Based Computer Guys [message #92033 is a reply to message #92032] Fri, 26 October 2007 09:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
TCB is currently offline  TCB
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Cool, thanks Dedric. I did find an OS X fuse project (Filesystem in USErspace)
sponsored by google (I use fuse to read/write ntfs partitions from my Debian
boxes) but the guy who owns the mac would freak out if I started installing
that kind of stuff.

I don't think any files will be anywhere near 4GB anyway, so we should be
golden.

Thanks again,

TCB

"Dedric Terry" <dterry@keyofd.net> wrote:
>Unfortunately not NTFS. And you are right - 4G - sorry about that. I'm

>pretty sure that's the limit on OSX as well with FAT32.
>
>Dedric
>
>"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote in message news:47220556$1@linux...
>>
>> Is this a Mac only thing? It's a 4GB file limit on XP using fat32.
>>
>> And the Mac won't read and ntfs partition?
>>
>> TCB
>>
>> "Dedric Terry" <dterry@keyofd.net> wrote:
>>>Thad - FAT 32. If you format the drive on a Mac for HFS you have to use
>>
>>>MacOpener or something similar on
>>>PC to read it (not sure if it works with firewire drives though).
>>>
>>>I wish the two would use a common format - FAT 32 has a 2G file limit.
>>>
>>>Dedric
>>>
>>>"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote in message news:472202b4$1@linux...
>>>>
>>>> My band tracks to a G4 Mac from the mid-50's, then I take the tracks

>>>> home
>>>> and edit/mix on my machine. I'm sick of burning DVDs to move the files
>>
>>>> back
>>>> to my place so I bought a 120 GB laptop drive and a teensy firewire
case
>>>> that will fit in my gig bag. Should speed the process up notably.
>>>>
>>>> Now then, I seem to remember that Fruit Based Computers can read one
of
>>
>>>> the
>>>> two common Windows filesystems but not the other one. So, without
>>>> installing
>>>> any additional software on my friends FBC, should I format the drive

>>>> fat32
>>>> or ntfs?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> TCB
>>>
>>
>
Re: Fruit Based Computer Guys [message #92043 is a reply to message #92033] Fri, 26 October 2007 15:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
DC is currently offline  DC
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I love it!

A fruit-based computer recording a fungal-based band!

All we need is some tube steaks and we have all your major food groups...



DC
Re: Fruit Based Computer Guys [message #92133 is a reply to message #92028] Mon, 29 October 2007 11:07 Go to previous message
Martin Harrington is currently offline  Martin Harrington   AUSTRALIA
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Macs read NTFS, but will not write to them, but will write to Fat 32, at
least OSX does
--
Martin Harrington
Lend An Ear Sound
Sydney Australia


"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote in message news:472202b4$1@linux...
>
> My band tracks to a G4 Mac from the mid-50's, then I take the tracks home
> and edit/mix on my machine. I'm sick of burning DVDs to move the files
> back
> to my place so I bought a 120 GB laptop drive and a teensy firewire case
> that will fit in my gig bag. Should speed the process up notably.
>
> Now then, I seem to remember that Fruit Based Computers can read one of
> the
> two common Windows filesystems but not the other one. So, without
> installing
> any additional software on my friends FBC, should I format the drive fat32
> or ntfs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> TCB
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