On Mar 6, 2009, at 11:20 PM, Dana Collins wrote:
> > > > > On 3/6/09 9:43 AM, Charles Davis of [email protected] sent > >> >> >> On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:37 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? >> >> That was why I moved up to Tiger from OS9. >> Had a friend/ customer that I wanted to move into a Mac, and needed >> access to all his "Windows" data files. >> >> After the move, he has been quite happy with a Dual 867 MDD. >> > NTFS in Tiger? Really? I can't get it on Leopard without using NTFS-3G > Project's OS X free-source utility. Tried the other day (writing to an > XP-formatted NTFS drive) and no go until I installed the above. > My Disk Utility will format as MS-DOS FAT but like Tiger, NTFS is not > (natively) an option. If you have it, tell me how!:-) > Very curious, > Dana Since my interest was in retrieving data from the NTFS files, I can't be certain that I ever tried to write anything to NTFS. Chuck D. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
