Own one. Works smashingly well with every PC I connect it to. However, my MacBook Pro running 10.6.4 will not acknowledge it. Everything I read on the web says that this should work fine, however it does not.
Drive is a regular WD Caviar Blue 500GB drive, 7200RPM, SATA, formatted NTFS. Nothing overly special about it, I just need read access and I know Mac can read NTFS. I know nothing's wrong with the drive as I've had it at least a year and working fine on three computers and all Windows VMs. Just my MacBook Pro that does not acknowledge it. Comes up with the unrecognized drive prompt. Checked it out in Windows Disk Manager and there's nothing funky about the partitioning or anything, CHKDSK comes up clean as well.
Anyone have any suggestions on things to try to get this thing working?
EDIT: Mac OS Disk Utility reports it being FAT16/MS-DOS. That's totally wrong, might be something with the Bridge that Snow Leopard isn't reading right, because Windows 7 reports it correctly as NTFS.
EDIT 2: Resolved. Needed to install NTFS 3G in order to override and allow me to access the drive. Something with Western Digital drives and a mystery partition or something.
Drive is a regular WD Caviar Blue 500GB drive, 7200RPM, SATA, formatted NTFS. Nothing overly special about it, I just need read access and I know Mac can read NTFS. I know nothing's wrong with the drive as I've had it at least a year and working fine on three computers and all Windows VMs. Just my MacBook Pro that does not acknowledge it. Comes up with the unrecognized drive prompt. Checked it out in Windows Disk Manager and there's nothing funky about the partitioning or anything, CHKDSK comes up clean as well.
Anyone have any suggestions on things to try to get this thing working?
EDIT: Mac OS Disk Utility reports it being FAT16/MS-DOS. That's totally wrong, might be something with the Bridge that Snow Leopard isn't reading right, because Windows 7 reports it correctly as NTFS.
EDIT 2: Resolved. Needed to install NTFS 3G in order to override and allow me to access the drive. Something with Western Digital drives and a mystery partition or something.
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