Re: [WinMac] Use PC formated HD on Mac
Daniel Soileau(dsoileau[at]email.unc.edu)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 23:58:28 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Changhsu Liu wrote:
> or FAT32 in order to mount it on Mac. Any opinions and issues on whether I
> should reformat it?
>
The only problem I see likely is that some Mac programs do not write to a
PC volume when saving files, even when saved in IBM, Windows, or DOS
format. The program that's produced this error most, oddly, is Microsoft
Word. A repository folder on the Mac volume (HFS or HFS+) could come in
handy for those Mac generated PC files you would copy later en masse to
the PC volume.
You'll need to check that PC volume for PC virus that aren't typically
detected by Mac virus software or that don't affect the Mac.
I wouldn't optimize the drive with any Mac hard disk management utility,
though I may be mistaken about that. Our PC volume is frequently emptied,
so defragmentation or optimization aren't required.
What I expected to not work reliably was sharing a PC volume in a Mac,
but I've not had a single incident of users on many platforms not
seeing the PC volume. The PC volume directory linked as an ftp directory
on the Mac web site also works well.
Daniel Soileau
Institute of Government
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
dsoileau@email.unc.edu
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