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Ruahrc · January 4th, 2006, 03:47 AM

For the record: I did find a solution to my problem. There are command-line utlities in OS X (Or rather I'd say they were inherited from its UNIX base) which allowed for multiple partions and multiple formats. Directions were found here:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...30613121738812

I was able to successfully partition and format the HD's in the manner that I wanted, and was able to mount, read to, and write to the "common" FAT32 partition that I made on each platform. I had to stop there though as I found I needed a firewire HD to make it bootable from my macintosh. So I had to return the drive and will get a firewire one (or maybe dual-option FW/USB) instead.

Ruahrc

January 4th, 2006, 03:47 AM	#7 (permalink)
Ruahrc Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 1,172	For the record: I did find a solution to my problem. There are command-line utlities in OS X (Or rather I'd say they were inherited from its UNIX base) which allowed for multiple partions and multiple formats. Directions were found here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...30613121738812 I was able to successfully partition and format the HD's in the manner that I wanted, and was able to mount, read to, and write to the "common" FAT32 partition that I made on each platform. I had to stop there though as I found I needed a firewire HD to make it bootable from my macintosh. So I had to return the drive and will get a firewire one (or maybe dual-option FW/USB) instead. Ruahrc