Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:18:59 +0100, LR <lrme@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried it with an external USB Hard Drive yet?
>
> Yep. Works fine with my Western Dismal 320GB USB drive:
> <http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=391>
> which is FAT32 formatted. However, a SimpleTech 330GB USB drive
> didn't work because of NTFS formatting. Apple knows about the issue.
> Apparently, it's intentional:
> <http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/wd-pumps-out-my-passport-for-mac-my-book-mac-edition/>
> where vendors are expected to deliver PC only and Mac only drives.
>
> I've been told that it's not terribly difficult to reformat external
> USB drives to FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, EFS, or whatever is deemed useful.
>
> I did have a problem with a Seagate Free Agent | Go drive:
> <http://freeagent.seagate.com/en-us/hard-drive/Free-Agent.html>
> The drive comes with two USB cables. One cable has two USB plugs in
> order to get more power to run the drive. That's not a problem with
> the 250GB version, but the 500GB version would sometimes fail to start
> if powered from only one USB plug. The problem is that the Airport
> Extreme only has one USB jack on the rear panel.
>
>
>
Thanks. That means we would have to continue using our nas drives for
our mixed linux windows network and just use our usb drive as a portable
drive.