Jack Gillis wrote:
> "Jack Gillis" <XXXXXXXX@widomaker.com> wrote in message
> news:13bm8a884dnpbb1@corp.supernews.com...
>> I recently bought an Iomega External HD (100G) drive to use primarily on my
>> XP systems. I came out of the box formatted FAT32. As I understand it
>>from Google Groups, this drive can be plugged into a Mac and used for both
>> reading and writing to share files between the XP and Mac machines.
>>
>> Is this correct?
>>
>
> I've been boxed in most of my life but what I meant to say was 'It came out
> of the box....', not 'I came out of the box....'
>
>

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75320

"Moving hard drive

While it is possible to move some IDE PC hard drives into some model Macintosh
computers, this is not the recommended method of transferring data and it should
only be used by experienced computer users who understand how to install and
format PC hard drives. It is only possible to read FAT and FAT32 formatted drives
in a Macintosh. Do not use NTFS formatted drives in a Macintosh computer.

Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 work with local NTFS-formatted volumes. The volume will be
read-only.

Warning: NTFS formatted drives cannot be used in a Macintosh (except as read-only
with Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 as noted above). If you attempt to use a NTFS formatted
disk, upon starting up the Mac OS will prompt you to format the drive. Do not format
the drive, doing so will erase the contents of the drive. If you have an NTFS
formatted disk, you must use another method to transfer the data from the PC to the
Macintosh."

FAT32 is recommended here as well, for externally connected disks.

http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/M...Windows_TB.pdf

The best way to search the apple site, is not using Apple search engines.
I use http://www.altavista.com/web/adv , set domain to "apple.com" and
enter the search terms in the top line. This method is also recommended
when searching sites having crappy search facilities such as the old ATI
or AMD.

Paul