How do I use my external harddrive windows and Mac

I just purchased an iomega 400GB drive I need to be able to use it for files on both my G3 Mac and a Windows XP laptop, mostly for my itunes files.
The drive is formatted in Fat32 or MSDOS but the Mac doesn't mount the drive. I've heard there is an arbitrary size limit on hard drives formatted in Fat32 but can't seem to find what that limit is. Does anyone know what that limit is? Do I partition the drive at the limit?
This Mac is running 10.3.9. so Macfuse isn't an option
Any help is appreciated.

xoxoyazyxoxo wrote:
.... that was exactly what I was looking for. Someone linked me once, but I couldn't find the info in the thread.
In FCPX, in the menu-bar is 'Help', which should you link to the Manual.
Be sure, you get the actual one for your version of FCPX ..
Glad to helpful!

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