Re: [Avid-L2] one NTFS drive not read by Mac, but another one is?

On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:28 AM, kenton.vannatten wrote:

> I picked up a 1TB Lacie external from a client on Tuesday, they had
captured all of the material onto it for me etc. The drive is
formatted NTFS, I'm on a Mac. My intent was to copy all of the media
files over to my RAID on my Mac and put their drive on the shelf until
I am through with it.
> I know that Macs can read NTFS (and to write to NTFS I use
Paragon), however when I plugged in their drive to my system I got the
message: "The device could not be read by this computer" and I was
given choices to Initialize, Ignore or Eject.
> I plugged the drive into my PC and it read it just fine. I plugged
another of my own NTFS externals into my Mac and that drive was read
just fine.

Thinking out loud:

Could there be drive size limitations with NTFS read on a Mac? I use
a portable USB bus-powered NTFS-formatted drive when moving media from
a PC to a Mac. It is a 320GB drive. It has always worked fine. I
never tried anything bigger.

Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
NBC Today Show, New York

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