Initializing HD, which format for mac and windows?

Hi,
I would like to initialize an external firewire HD to be able to use it on mac and pc.
Should I just choose the FAT format in disk utility?
Thanks!

this is about as good as I could find.
windows reads & writes ntfs, and fat32
os x reads and writes fat32 and mac os x extended.
os x can read ntfs (read only)
and fat32 can't handle large files or large disks.
spit it up and hope that no file is greater than 4gig
unless you can find the drivers for your xp or vista, you can't read a mac os x extended disk.

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