On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:37 AM, Paul wrote:
> > I just tried this very quickly, and then went on to do other more > urgent things, but I was pleasantly surprised by the results. > > I connected an external SATA hard drive that came out of a dead PC. I > was about to change it to standard Mac format, and decided to see how > much support Tiger (10.4.11) gave to NTFS format, the standard disk > format for Windows NT, 2000, and XP. > > I wasn't surprised that I could read the disk, but I remember being > able to write a file, too. Was I dreaming, or is NTFS read and write > support standard in Tiger? Out of the box, 10.4 and 10.5 both read NTFS drives, but cannot write to them. However, if you install MacFuse and the NTFS-3G driver, you gain Read/Write capability: <http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/> <http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
