P2 cards, Macs, PC's and Fat 32

Will be shooting my feature on the HVX 200...
The DP has a PC with which he downloads from the P2 cards.
I will edit on FCP.
Is FAT 32 an okay format to work with on Mac?
At school, our students always forget to reformat their hard drives out of the box. After a few weeks, things start getting weird in FCP. Inevitably, I will look at the drive and it is still formatted Fat 32. I have them reformat to MAC OS Extended and the problems go away.
Am I safe formating my drive FAT 32, downloading from the P2's via PC and then editing on Mac with the same FAT 32 drive?
Thanks folks!

FAT32 has a 2GB file limit. How long will your takes be?
If you have to use a FAT32 drive, I would use it simply to store and archive the P2 cards. Once you're back in the edit room, I'd have another drive formatted as OSX Extended. Set that as your capture scratch before you import the P2 cards into FCP.
That way you can keep the files backed up on the FAT32 drive, but use the QT files on your OSX drive.

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