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Will Panther Read/Write NTFS Partition
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My question is will Panther read/write to a NTFS Partition?
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Originally posted by damonledet:
My question is will Panther read/write to a NTFS Partition?
It will read one.
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via firewire? as in an external drive?
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Originally posted by damonledet:
via firewire? as in an external drive?
As in however you attach a drive to the computer.
Whether or not it'll read Dynamic Disks (as opposed to Basic) I do not know.
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I believe it uses the same NTFS drivers as Linux uses. Those are read only as they've not been able to reverse engineer writing.
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Originally posted by clarkgoble:
I believe it uses the same NTFS drivers as Linux uses.
No, Mac OS X drivers are very different to Linux drivers. They could have borrowed some underlying code, but they're most definitely not "the same".
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This may be wrong or whatever, but if you have a network-attached disk that is NTFS you can write to it.
E.g. - You are on a LAN and you connect to a Windows 2000 machine running NTFS over SMB. When you mount the disk, you can write to it, can't you??
Or am I wrong?
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Join Date: May 2001
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Yes, Panther mounts NTFS disks. I took an 80 GB HD and mounted internally in a Sawtooth G4 and it showed up with no other problems then that I couldn't rename it. I just reformatted it to HFS+ and cured that 
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Originally posted by DanUk2003:
E.g. - You are on a LAN and you connect to a Windows 2000 machine running NTFS over SMB. When you mount the disk, you can write to it, can't you??
Or am I wrong?
No. Yes. 
Well, the point is: if it's a network drive, it is attached to some computer where it's installed. So actually you send the data to that computer's SMB-service, which hands it to the NTFS driver to write it to disk.
Well, and the machine must be a WinNT+ machine.. No Windows-machine, no NTFS-write.
Actually, there are (at least) two NTFS-standards. Some Linux folks managed to write *knock on wood* to the old standard, which is AFIAK pre-W2kSP2. Later NTFS incorporates more features (FS journaling, for exemple) and is not yet (and maybe never) rev-eng'd.
Best, Michael.
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