http://www.worldiv.com/blog/?p=273 Online gaming, commentary, discussion... maybe even coding. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:04:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.worldiv.com/blog/?p=273&cpage=1#comment-129085 Tachevert Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:29:53 +0000 http://www.worldiv.com/blog/?p=273#comment-129085 Update: I had some issues with this router as well, but they were "getting settled in" type issues. But, as a bit of forewarning to my fellow "I use PCs, but I sure do LIKE Mac" enthusiasts: This machine HATES sharing a FAT32 drive. I'm serious. Try it if you want, but using FAT32 to share between Windows machines will inevitably lead to the router crashing or becoming unresponsive. However, I found an acceptable workaround -- format your network drive has HFS+ (aka "Mac OS Extended") and then share it via the router. Down side: It won't work via direct PC USB connection anymore (unless you grab something like <a href="http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/" title="Mediafour: MacDrive" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">MacDrive</a> to allow your PC to read HFS. And it'll still choke on very large (>1GB) files. But really, how many >1GB files do you have? So on the up side, my shared drive now works again from our variety of PCs and laptops, via Windows File Sharing. Update: I had some issues with this router as well, but they were “getting settled in” type issues. But, as a bit of forewarning to my fellow “I use PCs, but I sure do LIKE Mac” enthusiasts: This machine HATES sharing a FAT32 drive. I’m serious. Try it if you want, but using FAT32 to share between Windows machines will inevitably lead to the router crashing or becoming unresponsive. However, I found an acceptable workaround — format your network drive has HFS+ (aka “Mac OS Extended”) and then share it via the router. Down side: It won’t work via direct PC USB connection anymore (unless you grab something like MacDrive to allow your PC to read HFS. And it’ll still choke on very large (>1GB) files. But really, how many >1GB files do you have? So on the up side, my shared drive now works again from our variety of PCs and laptops, via Windows File Sharing.

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