On 31 Dec, 2007, at 3:39 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
right, so how is this different and I know it is from plugging in a
usb
drive?
Because the machine doing the actual writing is the computer that the
drive is connected to. So, if you have an NTFS drive connected to a
Windows desktop, your Mac is sending files to the Windows machine,
which is in turn writing to the disk. The reason, I think, that both
Mac and Linux can read but not write the NTFS format is that Microsoft
has a lockdown on the format, or at least wants huge royalty fees for
the use of the format. I know there are hacks you can use on the Mac
to allow it to write to NTFS drives, so it isn't a matter of software
or hardware limitations, but rather a conscious decision by Apple and
Linux developers to prevent you from writing to NTFS.
Josh de Lioncourt
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