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Title: LS-XHL - formatting for connected USB drive
Post by: jayboard on October 31, 2009, 02:13:18 PM
   

I'm thinking about an LS-XHL for my mixed Mac and PC home network. I don't think the user manual says, but I've concluded that the LS-XHL will work with a FAT32 or XFS formatted hard drive connected to its USB port, but not an HFS+ drive. Is that correct? 

 

I've got HFS+ drives connected to my iMac and want to know whether I'm going to have to erase and reformat them if I want to redeploy them for use with the LS-XHL. 

 

Thanks. 

 

Title: Re: LS-XHL - formatting for connected USB drive
Post by: PCPiranha on October 31, 2009, 04:11:48 PM

Yes, external hard drives must be formatted to either fat32 or XFS.  If it's in fat 32 you won't be able to edit files on the drive as it is a read only file format.

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