I have a 250gig firewire drive formatted for PC. It was used to backup the sample libraries of 3 giga samplers (speacilized PC's running XP). So it is literally full of $1000's worth of audio. We need to mount this drive on a Mac running 10.2.8, so we can convert the files for use with Mach 5. Any suggestions? Jaguar kindly offers to format this drive for me, and if i were to click the initialize button, I would not have a job to go to tomorrow.
PC Firewire drive on Jaguar??
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Zammy-Sam
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I assume you tried all that is possible. Since I have no idea how you could manage this, I have a suggestion for the worst case: if it will be impossible to plug the drive to a mac, I would get a pc with firewire and simply connect it to the mac with an ethernet-cable (no need to get a crosslinked). Share the drive and you will have a good speed. Not as fast as firewire, but at least fast (400mbit/sec vs. 100mbit/sec). Maybe you have a gigabit network and the pc as well. That should kill the bottle neck.
Ahhhh, I see your alubook has gigabit network..
Hope I was helpful
Ahhhh, I see your alubook has gigabit network..
Hope I was helpful
bobw said:
ok, you nailed it bobw. We have a panther box on our network and when we plugged the drive into it, it saw the drive just fine. Although we cannot access that drive on the network .
And good thought Zammy, but these 3 pc's are so specialized they dont even have nic cards so we couldnt connect to them if we wanted to.