As can Linux. Good reason to have a non-Windows OS handy. That said, there's little reason not to use NTFS these days (Linux handles it fine, I suspect OS X can as well if you have a recent version). FAT32 is VERY inefficient with larger disks, which is one reason why MS is trying to force it out of use.
-Adam On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <gdigio...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mac OS X can format volumes in FAT32 up to the file system maximum limits. > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:36 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:10:23PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: >>> From: steve harley >>> >>> It's a 500GB drive. I don't think Windoze can cope with that in FAT-32. >> >> The Format utility supplied by Microsoft is artificially limited to a >> maximum volume size of 32GB. But if you get the disk formatted somehow >> (including buying a pre-formatted disk) Windows can handle FAT-32 disks >> and/or volumes of up to 2TB (and, with a little magic, disks up to 8TB). >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
