Hi everyone,

I am going to go for the Maxtor 300 Gb drive. Maxtor Shared Storage

Now XP supports FAT32 and although it can only format up to 32 Gb natively it can read up to 8 Tb theoretically so ok to read a 300 Gb partition.

Mac OS9 & X supports FAT32 also however I am a bit unclear on the total partition size it can support. I Googled and found reference to OSX being able to support up to 127 Gb but can't find anything about OS9.

There is also the issue of the 4 Gb file size limitation on FAT32 but short of buying a W2k3 Server and setting up Mac services I can't see any other way to go. I don't want to have to purchase third-party apps to allow Mac to read & write to NTFS or whatever.

Anyone got any comments? Feel free to point out any glaring mistakes I have made!

TIA,

emr