thanks, did some searches for firewire san and it seems like that's overkill for me since i really never plan on connecting to the drive using more than one machine at a time.
however, i found this infomative page about sharing firewire drives between XP and OSX if others are looking to do something similar. http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sharefwdrive.html Does anyone have any experience with mediafour's MacDrive? i'm thinking i could format the drive in OSX, install macdrive on my PC and everything would be peachy. anyone do this? ever? thanks -t ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Laplante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Slim Devices Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [slim] external drive with 2 OS's Another option to experiment with is UDF. It is traditionally intended for optical media, but it can be written to hard-disks as well. I know at least for Linux such tools exist. I think you definitely have to partition on the windows box. Firewire also allows for more than one host at a time to talk to a given device, you may be able to mount it on more than one machine read-only, or even read-write on one machine. Search for "firewire san" for more info on doing this. -Chris On 8/12/05, dijon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i want to move all my mp3's to an external firewire drive to share between > my windows xp desktop and mac osx laptop (on different occasions - not the > same time). if i format the drive for OSX win xp won't see it (i think) but > if i format it for win xp, OSX will see it (again, i think). are there any > foreseeable problems in doing this? > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
