Sean's went through while I was typing mine. My response was to the original.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Cocoa Dummy <[email protected]> wrote: > These are like comparing apples to Oranges. The reason the sony flash > drive probably worked is because it was likely FAT filesystem. The new > drive you bought is likely NTFS, you do not have to make it Mac only, you > just need to format it as FAT32. You cannot do this in Windows XP or later > for drives of this size, but you can format it in Mac OSx. > MacFUSE is a programming API combined with a System Driver that allows > developers to code to allow more filesystems to be supported on Mac. > > > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Archie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I have a Sony Flash memory USB for a couple of years to port files >> between Windows. A year ago I have a Macbook Pro. Without a second >> thought I slotted Sony chip into the Mac and surpriised to find that I >> can read and write files on to it. Albeit Mac created a couple of >> files and folders which looked pretty harmless to me. A week ago I >> bought Seagate FreeAgent 500G and came across problem well documented >> on the Web. Mac can read but cannot write to it unless I turn it into >> Mac use only. Very different from Sony memory chip. >> Does Sony know something we don"t? I would appreciate if Amit can >> shine some light onto this. Thanks. >> >> Archie >> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. 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/macfuse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
