BJMoose Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 I've not yet installed Leopard on my Mac Pro because I'm working on a number of projects that are due before the end of the year and don't want to disrupt anything. On my hacks, I've noticed something that I wasn't aware was part of Leopard's features. I can plug in an NTFS hard drive from my windows system and it has both read and write capabilities native. I copied a 150mb file back and forth in only a matter of seconds. Is this a new feature of Leopard? I couldn't find anything in BrazilMac that loaded any read/write software. I installed on a clean hard drive, not over a previous Tiger installation. I'm wondering if this is just a hack thing or will this work on my Mac Pro too? This is a great benefit for transferring large video files between systems and perhaps even over the network. Also, the drives are showing on the desktop and in finder as native hard disks...not network disks. Interesting!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72393-hackintosh-leopard-reading-and-writing-to-ntfs-drives/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 . . for 'interesting' put remarkable. (hurrying off to plug in an NTFS HDD & play . . . ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72393-hackintosh-leopard-reading-and-writing-to-ntfs-drives/#findComment-512612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 I should add that this is using the external SATA 4 drive enclosure that is connected to the ICH7 controller via eSATA connections. The other four drives (windows xp setup) are connected to the Marvell controller. I haven't yet transferred data from one controller to the other but all the drives at least show up and under more info, they say read and write. If this isn't part of Leopard (I can't find anything on Apple's site or in the forums) I'd like to know what caused it. I couldn't write to NTFS on Tiger without something like NTFS-3G (macfuse). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72393-hackintosh-leopard-reading-and-writing-to-ntfs-drives/#findComment-512877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerPrince Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 my Leopard is ronly for NTFS. The disk appears in finder as a native disk but I don't have write access. I did have write access in Tiger though, although I don't remember if I installed mac-fuse or something. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72393-hackintosh-leopard-reading-and-writing-to-ntfs-drives/#findComment-513706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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