>>Does anyone know if I can skip the formatting step, because I wouldlike the flash card to be readable on non-Mac devices as well?
No, you can't skip it. The software that lets a machine access non-Mac disks is in the OS that would be on the disk you are trying to load.
A CF mounts as an ordinary drive.
You can reformat it as Mac by using the Erase Disk option of the Special menu.
Select HFS or HFS+.
Then use it as a regular Mac disk.
Thanks for the clarification. The issue is transferring data to and from the PB without using a floppy disk. Presumably once I have formatted the flash disk, it can still be read by a Mac running OS X but not by Windows (or my Palm, for that matter)?
BTW, this is a great list with timely and helpful responses. Thanks guys.
/Tom
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