usually use a mac to format, but you could use linux almost as easy. ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthias Johnson To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 9:49 PM Subject: Re: [mhvlug] Advanced Format Hard Drive
On Apr 23, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Clyde Cottingham <[email protected]> wrote: my 2¢ I am also considering this drive. “I want to buy this HDD to solve my storage woes” If you are using the drive for storage, I don’t think you have any problems. I plan to format with fat32 [not in xp] and use it cross platform. Just to add that fat32 has a 4 gig file size limit which is almost the size of a distro iso Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium May 5 - Crack and LLVM Jun 2 - Android Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie
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