Comments on: Mac & PC drives now in harmony

By: Deke

Deke — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:33:47 +0000

Macfuse works but the ntfs driver is pretty slow. Ill have to try out Paragon to see how fast it is.

By: carl

carl — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:09:01 +0000

Anyone have some experience with MacFUSE? How stable is it?
thanks

By: Nick Marques

Nick Marques — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:56:43 +0000

I’ve been using (or trying to use) MacDrive since version 5 and the trial version never needed to work on my external drives for no apparent reason. I have about a dozen different enclosure/drive combinations. So I gave up on that.

Recently, I tried MacDrive 7 on Vista, and it worked nicely, so I bought it. I don’t use it regularly, but it’s good to have around when it’s needed.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:18:50 +0000

From my MBP, I map to shares on my XP Pro machine (NTFS Formatted) via Option-K, pathing as smb:// and I’m able to write files without problems. Does this provide other support or any performance gains anywhere?

By: Pedro Estarque

Pedro Estarque — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:41:15 +0000

Are you aware of MacFUSE ?
It’s free and open source:

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

[DR - Hi Pedro, sure I'm aware of MacFUSE, but I don't feel like dealing with little bits of code and frankly the page you listed just scares me away. Paragon's solution works and works well. For me, it's a safer solution. However, other posters have mentioned this solution to me in my MacDrive post.]