Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2794 from 2006/3/21
From: Northern Calif...
Jim,
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The only reason I was thinking of using an external drive was to format it as a FAT32 volume and use it on my PC and my Power mac.
Now that I think about it, I can probably do this via an eSATA connection.
You mean for transfering files between your PC and your PowerMac?
Or are you going to use this FAT32 formatted external hard drive to backup both your MorphOS2.7 hard drive in the PowerMac, and also backup a hard drive in your PC?
If it is just for file transfers, I would use a USB memory stick instead. I have an 8gb USB memory stick for this purpose.
Not quite sure what you want to use this external hard drive connected to the FireWire port of your FW800 PowerMac for. Not many Wintel PC's have FireWire ports and not many G4 PowerMac's have an eSATA PCI card.
Edit: Just to satisfy my curiosity, do you (or any other MDD & FW800 PowerMac owners) have the second hard drive cage under your optical drive bay? Just wondering if my dual 1.25GHz G4 MDD PowerMac had it's cage removed by the previous owner, or if it is an optional item and none of the rest of you have it either.
[ Edited by amigadave 24.04.2012 - 07:30 ]MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.
