Glyph GT050 Firewire External Drive in Windows

Glyph support doesn't know the answer to this, so hopefully someone has experience with this. My question is can I partition this 120 gig drive with say a 20 gig fat32 partition and then save data on it from my windows side? The other partition would remain for Mac files and be usable in OSX?

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Thanks.

Okay,apparantly no one else seems to be having this issue. That being the case then, how do I find a log file to get an error code so I can try to determine *why* Time Machine is failing?

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I have 2 Mac Pro running 10.5.2 with all recent updates:
1) Mac Pro *****UXYL model MacPro3,1 (early 2008)
2) Mac Pro *****00PX model MacPro1,1 ROM de démarrage : MP11.005D.B00
On the second I can mount and boot with a FireWire external drive. I can also use an utility DVD or CD like DiskWarrior.
On the first one, nothing of this is possible : I cannot mount a FireWire drive only an USB drive. I cannot use CD or DVD bootables except of course Install Disks (version 1.1)
I tried to obtain an answer from Apple support without any success.
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The ROM has been reported in the past to be one element of the issue, but in general Apple has made it abundently clear that you can't install an older operating system on a Mac nor boot from an older operating system than the Mac than came with it in these two articles:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303315
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25517
And as far as I know no one has been able to downgrade the ROM to an older version than it shipped with either to force boot an older operating system.

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Sorry, this should be in the "Networking" forum, BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM TO EXIST. . .
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WHY isn't there a "Share this Drive on the Network" checkbox in "Get Info"? So you could easily share any USB or Firewire storage device instantly!
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Sorry, this should be in the "Networking" forum, BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM TO EXIST. . .
Have 500GB Firewire external drive hooked to G5 for backup. Just want to have it mount our other Mac's desktop so they can also use it over the network for backup. I CANNOT find ANY WAY to do this glaringly obvious desired feature within OSX!!!
WHY isn't there a "Share this Drive on the Network" checkbox in "Get Info"? So you could easily share any USB or Firewire storage device instantly!
Thanks!

I've just moved from PC to Mac, with my PC i and using Vmware Player I used to work on 2 Virtual M/C both on 2 external drives, one Windows Server 2000 as operating system and the sec. WindowsXP, is their a way to open these m/c on my mac

I've just moved from PC to Mac, with my PC i and using Vmware Player I used to work on 2 Virtual M/C both on 2 external drives, one Windows Server 2000 as operating system and the sec. WindowsXP, is their a way to open these m/c on my mac

I am so glad to hear about your success. As you are new to the Mac environment, I will be glad to help you more.
You said: "I can't change the setup yet but i have access". I don't understand what you mean about changing the setup! Please let me know more about that.
I also recommend to use Boot Camp, which allows you to install windows on a partition of your internal hard drive. This has many benefits. First, you can restart your computer and start up in windows. This makes your Mac device a complete windows machine and you gain the most from your hardware when working in Windows. Second, if a problem occures to your Mac OS X, you can restart your machine in Windows and prevent your data from getting lost. Third, you can import the Windows installed on the boot camp partition in to the Mac OS X using VMWare Fusion and work with it as a virtual machine. In this situation, VMWare enables you to work directly with your Windows in the boot camp partition. So it does not create a file package for the virtual machine in OS X.
Regarding the data safety and reliablity, I strongly recommend using Time Machine. You can also set it up to back up your virtual machines or not. This is possible to set up in the Virtual Machine Preferences Page in VMWare Fusion, or in the Time Machine preferences page in the System Preferences app of OS X.
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I have left the option for Leopard to "Always open folders in a new window" unchecked in the finder preferences window.
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Is there any way to stop this?

mbpjunkie,
Try this, you see that little button in the top right of the window. Click on that it will toggle the window view. When you can see the toolbar all the windows open up in one and when you can't see the toolbar they open in there own window.
Note you can also toggle this on in off in the View menu.
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I am using Boot Camp Windows 8. I have an external drive (firewire) which I have connected to my thunderbolt display. The thunderbolt display is connected to my rMBP. I am unable to see my external drive. Could someone please offer me some assistance?
Thank you.

yves-k wrote:
You cannot use external drives to install windows using bootcamp on them as your mac won't let windows boot on an external drive sry...
Windows does not boot from an external drive, doesn't matter whether it's a Mac or a PC.

Can't get FireWire External Drives to Show on Network

Ok I'm stumped and I'm feeling really foolish. I'm sure I'm missing something basic here, but I can't get it. Maybe one of you can see the issue.
So. The setup:
The computer "out back:"
G5 w/10.3.9
Exabyte 1U Packet Loader via Firewire 800.
In the Firewire chain after the packet loader: two LaCie d2 Firewire hard drives, both connected via FW 800.
The "other" computers:
An array of G4s with either 10.3.9 or 10.4.9. All connected via ethernet.
Here's the issue: when I had the two firewire drives connected to another (G3 Blue and White on 10.3.9) machine, I could go to "network" connect via the admin name/password, and the two external firewire drives would be options for me to connect to. Now, I can connect fine to the "out back" computer, connect with admin username and password, and see the computer in all it's glory just fine. BUT no drives. Not even an option. No access at all.
I can see the two drives on the desktop of the "outback" computer just fine. Retrospect sees them just fine, because I use that to backup one drive to the other. But no network access.
What I've done:
Checked ownership on the two drives. Set to "read and write" for everyone.
Repaired permissions, redid the combo update. repaired permissions again.
Turned sharing off and back on again.
Thoughts? Questions? What am I missin' here? What else do you need to know?
Thanks!
Brian
G4s and G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
G4s and G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Ok that was a quick fix...
First: I was having no problem seeing the drives on the machine they were attached to.
Second: I was having no problems finding computers on the network.
BUT: I was having problems seeing the FireWire drives from the network, something I had been able to do before with no problem.
SOLUTION: I had "Windows Sharing" turned ON in the Sharing Prefences Panel. Once I turned that off, and just had "Personal File Sharing" turned on, it worked just fine.
Thanks for all your help!
Best
Brian
G4s and G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

How do i setup itunes only on external drive with windows

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i want to have music with xp without putting music on my bootcamp partition ( i think my size is 25 or 35 gig). how do i do this on my external drive? do i install itunes on my windows external partition and just copy my music folder there and then import?
i want to make sure i have a good idea of what to do before i start fooling around. my windows partition is fat 32 while my bootcamp is ntsf

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Using a firewire external drive for Raid

Hi
I posted a question related to this earlier but not specifially on this topic, hence this post.
I was watching Lynda.com video tutorial for servers and noted how easy it seemed to set up a raid solution. However since I am going to use a mac mini for a server I cannot have two harddiscs in it. However I can have a firewire external disc as well as usb 2.0 discs. I figure usb is way to slow, but the firewire should be fast enough..so my question is..can I just buy a firewire disc connect it..use diskutility and set up a raid? Or is there something special I need to concern myself with here i.e special type of external disc etc?
It would be supercool if I could do it this way. Might add, this is low traffic personal server and not a critical server at work..still would be nice with raid though. Then I would do time machine via the usb to an external disc.
Cudos to everyone on the list for all your help.

slightly better than a daisy chained raid array is a multiple bay external firewire enclosure that either offers hardware mirroring or can be mirrored in software. i've used these on client servers before, and they generally work fine.
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I do not want to install Windows on the external drive.
An external drive is needed to download the windows support software as stated in Boot Camp. It seems I cannot use a partition on the external drive to download the support software.. Wondering if there is a work around this..

Want to use a Firewire external drive as my boot drive, few questions thoug

I have an old second gen ppc mini. My hard drive just died. It's been on it's last legs for months, but today it finally stopped booting totally. Ran a hardware test and the drive is bad.
Instead of having to open it, I'd rather just buy an external firewire drive. The prices are easily comparable to an internal anyway. That brings up a few questions.
1. From research on the apple discussions and just good old google, I'm finding it's mostly viable to use an external drive as a boot device, anything I should know?
2. From what I remember, when OS X is installed, the installer asks for drive to install OS to. If I select the firewire drive will it then remember that drive as the boot device, after the install is finished? I don't want to have to select it each time the machine reboots.
3. What happens with the bad internal hard drive? Can it just stay there? Since it's bad will it interfere with the mini operation? I'd rather not have to open the case.
4. Anything special about the external drive that I need to know? I found this one on buy.com...
http://www.buy.com/prod/fd-titanium-ii-firewire-usb-2-0-hard-drive-320gb-7200rpm -ieee-1394a/q/loc/101/203405880.html
Any problem with that one?
I guess if there's anything I'm not thinking of, please let me know.
Thanks...

If I were going to use an external hard drive, I would buy the case from http://www.macsales.com (one example is http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW91UAL1K/ ) then buy a hard drive and put it in. The hard drive, depending on manufacturer, will have either a 3 year or 5 year (Seagate is the only one warrantied for 5 years) warranty, unlike the prepackaged units that have a 1 year warranty. Also, if you can get an external case which uses any of the Oxford chipsets, they work well with our macs. Also, some people like the ministack for mac mini usage: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ministack/
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Use external drive for windows and mac

Hello,
I just bought a external 320Gb Western Digital Drive. I would like to use
the drive for windows and mac.I will not like to make partation on the drive
to use it on both operating systems. Is there any formating system with which i can use in both operating systems? I would like to use time machine feature on that drive also.
Thanx.

If you want to use a disk for both PC/Mac file storage and Time Machine, you will have to create two partitions. Partitioning is sort of like creating multiple virtual disks on the same physical disk. One partition should be formatted for PC (which the Mac can also use) and the other should be formatted for HFS+ (Mac only) which is what Time Machine requires. The Disk Utility application makes partitioning and formatting very easy.

How do I get iTunes to use the iTunes folder on an external drive? Windows 7

I have used iTunes on an external drive on a Windows XP machine. I moved the drive to a Windows 7 computer, authorized it with Apple. However, when I go to preferences/advanced and try to change the Media folder location,the location is changed but the music is not recognized in Itunes. Help!

I experimented and discovered the solution by trial and error. I don't understand why this is not documented in a way that a naive user would understand. It is step 2, below, that is not obvious. Unless you know that there is this thing called a library and that you must import it, you would be at a dead end. I originally assumed that when I point iTunes to the folder on the external drive where iTunes was located it would recognize everything from there.
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Scratch Disc Questions using Firewire External Drive & Imac

Hello. I've read through the existing questions regarding scratch disc and Photoshop, yet can't seem to find an answer to my questions. I would greatly appreciate any tips/advice. Here is my setup and situation:
I am running an iMac with a 2.16 intel core 2 duo processor, 3 GB memory, and running OS X version 10.6.4. I am currently using versions cs3 and cs4 of Photoshop, but plan to upgrade to cs5 soon.
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Now I'm wondering if it's a bad idea to purchase a macbook for my next computer (what I wanted to do) because it will also only have one drive, not allowing for a seperate drive for the scratch disc. Any thoughts? I've read around the net but haven't found any definitive answers.

Designer,
Photoshop benefits greatly from having a scratch disk on a separate physical drive, not on the boot disk or on another partition of the boot disk. It's almost not worth connecting via Firewire 400 because the transfer limitations don't allow much performance improvement. But using a Firewire 800 connection gives excellent performance.
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