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
>>
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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