Stephen Pruitt
October 24th, 2006, 10:14 PM
Hi all. . .
I bought an external hard drive for my MacBook Pro over the weekend (Western Digital) 1 terrabyte. I was wanting to configure the data to a RAID 1 format so I'll only have about 500 gig of actual storage space.
Here's my question. When I went to change the format of the drive to RAID 1, the choices offered were HFS+ and FAT32 formats.
I first changed the drive to FAT32, figuring that since that's what my P2 cards use, that would be the most "family friendly".
However, when I fired up my P2 Genie program, it immediately recognized the external drive as a P2 card instead of a target drive (despite the fact that the path made it clear that the external drive was my target!).
Here's my specific question:
If am using Final Cut Pro 5.1.X (I don't know the exact number!), is setting my external drive at HFS+ 100% appropriate? Or did I mess up the drive by configuring it (since my only two choices are FAT32 and HFS+)?
Alternatively, is there any way to get P2 Genie to NOT see my external drive as an empty P2 card?
Thanks so much! I have a lot of footage on my P2 store from this weekend's video shoot that I am wanting to download and copy as soon as possible!
Sincerely,
Stephen Pruitt
I bought an external hard drive for my MacBook Pro over the weekend (Western Digital) 1 terrabyte. I was wanting to configure the data to a RAID 1 format so I'll only have about 500 gig of actual storage space.
Here's my question. When I went to change the format of the drive to RAID 1, the choices offered were HFS+ and FAT32 formats.
I first changed the drive to FAT32, figuring that since that's what my P2 cards use, that would be the most "family friendly".
However, when I fired up my P2 Genie program, it immediately recognized the external drive as a P2 card instead of a target drive (despite the fact that the path made it clear that the external drive was my target!).
Here's my specific question:
If am using Final Cut Pro 5.1.X (I don't know the exact number!), is setting my external drive at HFS+ 100% appropriate? Or did I mess up the drive by configuring it (since my only two choices are FAT32 and HFS+)?
Alternatively, is there any way to get P2 Genie to NOT see my external drive as an empty P2 card?
Thanks so much! I have a lot of footage on my P2 store from this weekend's video shoot that I am wanting to download and copy as soon as possible!
Sincerely,
Stephen Pruitt