KVR Audio

Adambomb337 · Post by **Adambomb337** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:29 pm

Do you need to format an external hard drive in a particular way in order for osx and windows to read it?

Dominus · Post by **Dominus** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:43 pm

FAT32 if you're planning on both OSX and Windows being able to read and write to it.

Adambomb337 · Post by **Adambomb337** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:54 pm

Thanks Dominus!

Is FAT32 limited in the amount of gigs it can use?

Is there any way around it?

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:04 pm

Adambomb337 wrote: Is FAT32 limited in the amount of gigs it can use?

I think there's a partition limit - but it might only be true for Win98, not sure, sorry.
There's a file size limit, though. Individual files may not exceed 4GB on FAT32 drives. Perhaps not a problem, though. The only time I noticed it was when trying to copy a DVBT movie to a FAT32 external drive.
However, both for OSX and Windows there's tools to reads the other file format. No idea how well they work.

Personally, I'm using external HDDs with a bunch of FAT32, NTFS and HFS partitions.
Fwiw, OSC can at least read from NTFS natively.

External Hard drive with mac and pc?