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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=937
Wiebetech to bundle MacDrive
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
September 13th 2002
With MediaFour''s utility loaded, PCs can read and write to a Mac-formatted disk
WiebeTech and Mediafour have announce that MediaFour''s MacDrive 5 software will now
be bundled with most WiebeTech storage products. MacDrive 5 allows any Windoze box to
read and write disk volumes that have been formatted on a Mac. The new software will
be available on products shipping from mid-September.
�Customers are constantly moving FireWire and USB storage devices between Macs and
PCs,� said James Wiebe, president, WiebeTech. �Until now, this has been done by
formatting the disk with PC [Fat-32] format. This has caused problems, especially for
customers with large files that potentially break the 4GB limitation of the PC format.
�Customers have also experienced significant trouble when moving files between WinXP
systems and Macs, especially OS X,� continued Wiebe. �MacDrive solves these problems
completely by making the Mac HFS+ [Mac Extended] file format a native format on
Windows computers.�
Brian Landwehr, president, Mediafour, said, �We are very pleased with WiebeTech''s
decision to provide MacDrive 5 software to their customers. Our award-winning
MacDrive software, combined with their award-winning hardware, provides a world-class
way to transfer large files between platforms. The power of MacDrive has never been
shown more dramatically than when used with an ultra-fast, ultra-small WiebeTech drive.
MacDrive 5 provides an easy and seamless way for PCs and Macs to exchange documents.
One of the most significant features of MacDrive 5 is Windows XP compatibility, as
well as support for Microsoft Windows ME, 98, 95, NT 4.0 and 2000.
MacDrive 5 will be bundled with and the new bus-powered Super DesktopGB; the
pocket-sized MicroGB; and all three DriveDock products which provide FireWire bridges
for 3.5-inch IDE drives, according to the company.
Editor''s note: With X.2''s improved PC networking support, MacDrive is a largely
superfluous product. However, when you take your FireWire or USB drive to another
location you lose Jaguar''s built-in PC-spanking, chewy goodness. Bundling solves this
problem. Two good companies getting together to make the Mac world a tad better.
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