External Drive for OS 10.4 Tiger

2015-01-15 Thread Al Poulin
Can’t new external hard drives be formated or otherwise made to work with OS X 10.4 Tiger? I do not understand why not. A user group member wants to buy an external hard drive to back up her old iMac with 10.4 Tiger. It seems that models available at the Apple Store, Best Buy, and other

Re: External Drive for OS 10.4 Tiger

2015-01-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 15, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: Can’t new external hard drives be formated or otherwise made to work with OS X 10.4 Tiger? I do not understand why not. A user group member wants to buy an external hard drive to back up her old iMac with 10.4 Tiger.

Re: External Drive for OS 10.4 Tiger

2015-01-15 Thread Clark Martin
Agreed, mostly, companies put such requirements on their products to avoid supporting older systems. KK6ISP Yet another designated driver on the information super highway. On Jan 15, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jan 15, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Al Poulin

Re: External Drive for OS 10.4 Tiger

2015-01-15 Thread GMail Valter Psicof
Il giorno 16/01/15 00.36, Bruce Johnson ha scritto: A user group member wants to buy an external hard drive to back up her old iMac with 10.4 Tiger. any USB drive should work on any USB-capable Mac. Most likely. But that iMac better have USB 2.0 ports, otherwise USB 1.1 slowness will make

Re: External Drive for OS 10.4 Tiger

2015-01-15 Thread Al Poulin
On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 8:07:49 PM UTC-5, ValterV wrote: Il giorno 16/01/15 00.36, Bruce Johnson ha scritto: A user group member wants to buy an external hard drive to back up her old iMac with 10.4 Tiger. any USB drive should work on any USB-capable Mac. Most likely.