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    Getting my Mac to R/W a PC-formatted USB drive

    Nialler, Thanks for the help. I use a Mac at work and there is a pc at home, hence it would be easier to bring a portable HD than sharing through the network. My disk util only formats one PC mode: "Dos format" and I tried on both my G3 powerbook (10.2) and my iMac G5 (10.3), neither gets...
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    Getting my Mac to R/W a PC-formatted USB drive

    Thanks for all the replies...I figured that out eventually... another question: even under FAT32, my mac can write to it, but all the date stamps are changed to the time of copying, rather than the original date of creation.... is this a Mac bug? if the disc is formatted as a Mac OS, then...
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    Getting my Mac to R/W a PC-formatted USB drive

    I am trying to use a USB/Firewire disk to move files between PC and Mac. If I format the drive on my iMac G5 (Pather), even in "DOS format", the PC would not see it. Now I formatted it in PC (win XP, NTFS) and my Mac can see it, but can only read. It says it cannot modified if I trie to...
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    Firewire Port Messed Up After Firmware Update

    Since USB can see my drive but not mount, I bought disk warrior last night and started repairing it. Now it mounts fine. However it does not get recognized by firewire! strange. it is ok with me since my iMac G5 recognizes it as USB2, but strangely my powerbook G4 only as USB1 (but the huge...
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    Firewire Port Messed Up After Firmware Update

    well after a while now my G4 Powerbook can read my 40 gig now. but still no luck with the 160 gig with either computer. I plugged it through USB today and now I get a message saying OSX cannot read it and recommend reformatting... disk utility can see it now, but cannot fix the error. so there...
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    Firewire Port Messed Up After Firmware Update

    I found a firmware that supposedly would make the original superdrive (1x) of my titanium G4 powerbook (15", bought Jan 03) faster (become 2x, see http://superdrive.cynikal.net/). so I updated my firmware using first "UJ-815 to DWDB", then "UJ-815 to DOCB" and the computer boots up and...
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