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(OT) Portable USB drive (makes no sense)
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(OT) Portable USB drive (makes no sense)
On 05/01/2016 09:28 PM, John Albert wrote:
On 5/1/16 7:31 PM,
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This drive is also for Macintosh. I thought a Mac computer requires a
different drive format. That's even more puzzling!
The standard "Mac format" is called HFS+, but that cannot be
read/written to on Windows machines without special software.
The Mac OS, however, -can- read/write at least some Windows formats (and
can read some others).
It makes sense to have a copy of the disk drivers "on the drive itself".
The idea is that:
- you plug it into the computer
- computer queries connection, discovers drive, loads drivers
- drive mounts on desktop and is ready for use...
So it actually doesn't need the drivers, since it can access the disk
without them.
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