[ibook4me]

I've got 80GB Lacie firewire hard drive (Silverlining Pro - operating software). I want to move this hard drive back and forth between my iBook 600mhz, 253mb, OS X 10.1.4 and PC ME to transfer digital photos and MP3 files. I formatted the hard drive with the PC FAT32 format as instructed by the LaCie Tech support.
My OS 9.2 can recognize the drive and exchange files between both computers. When I tried to run my iBook in OS X 10.1.4, it gave me the following message " You have inserted a disk containing no volume that Mac X can read. To use the unreadable volumes, click Initialize. To continue with the disk inserted, click continue" and this will guide me to the Disk Utility to format the LaCie hard disk. Now Tech support is suggesting reformatting in DOS format in OS X. Does anyone know what this Tech support is talking about? And has anyone have such experience? Please advise!

[CarpetFluff]

I have had similar issues which may or may not be related. Firstly, you can only format the drive as Fat32 if you want a PC to recognise it. I had a problem similar to yours once when I unplugged the drive from my PC at work before Windows had finished shutting down. when I got home OS X told me it couldn't read the drive and did I want to format it.

Well this made me crap myself as I had lots of important work on it, so I tried it in OS 9, worked fine! So I decided to take it back into work the next day and see what the PC had to say for itself, I booted up with the drive connected and it told me there was an error on the volume and would I like to fix it. So I took it home and it then worked fine in X.

It could be that this is the problem, get a PC to check out the disk, it is it's native file structure after all. you can't format in Dos in X as far as I know, I used Vitual PC to do it on mine but that's a different story.

anyway I hope that's useful :o)

[CarpetFluff]

I forgot to mention, if you do get it going o.k in X, you will notice strange extra files when you open up the drive again on a PC, for each file you have "filename2 there will be another but with _.filename at the begining, these are to do with unix and it's file structure I guess, OS 9 hides them but they show up on the PC and it makes it a pain to find the file you want straight away.

ta ta

[Eug]

Originally posted by ibook4me:
<STRONG>I've got 80GB Lacie firewire hard drive (Silverlining Pro - operating software). I want to move this hard drive back and forth between my iBook 600mhz, 253mb, OS X 10.1.4 and PC ME to transfer digital photos and MP3 files. I formatted the hard drive with the PC FAT32 format as instructed by the LaCie Tech support.
My OS 9.2 can recognize the drive and exchange files between both computers. When I tried to run my iBook in OS X 10.1.4, it gave me the following message " You have inserted a disk containing no volume that Mac X can read. To use the unreadable volumes, click Initialize. To continue with the disk inserted, click continue" and this will guide me to the Disk Utility to format the LaCie hard disk. Now Tech support is suggesting reformatting in DOS format in OS X. Does anyone know what this Tech support is talking about? And has anyone have such experience? Please advise! </STRONG>

I had a transintl.com drive which I formatted to FAT32 for X.1.2. It was a 60 GB drive so I had to use Partition Magic to format it, as Windows 2000 refuses to allow it for drives over 32 MB. Worked great until one day I got the exact same message as above. Works fine in OS 9. Tried reformatting the drive. No dice. Tried upgrading to X.1.3. No dice. Reinstalled OS X on the iBook. Again no dice. Tried X.1.4 upgrade - no dice. So I gave up, since I didn't want to spend money on MacDrive for the PC to use HFS+. I run it exclusively with NTFS now and access it with the iBook through the network. The benefit with NTFS is it handles forks fine - no extra ._ files all over the place.

Now for quick and dirty large file transfers I use an external Firewire DVD-RAM drive and UDF 1.5. Both the iBook and Windows XP (with extra drivers) just love it for read/writes. FAT32 with DVD-RAM doesn't work on the iBook. For small files I just use zip.

[ 05-16-2002: Message edited by: Eug ]