firewire drive won't load ???

i had a parallels xp system running on my macbook pro and i wanted to edit some media i have on an external ntfs drive. i tried connecting the drive with the firewire 800 connection and the firewire 400 connection - it would not load into the xp machine...

does parallels not work with external firewire drives?

i had parallels 3120 installed. i've errased that and am now trying to install the xp system with bootcamp to see if the drive works that way. i'm just wondering if this was abnormal behavior or not.

thanks,
max

 

Parallels does not support firewire at all. There has been no indication that they are planning to do so either.

 

You could always use an NTFS bridge on the Mac, and then share the drive.

 

Ah, that's exactly what I need!

So, what is a Mac NTFS bridge.

 

i've searched arround for a software "mac ntfs bridge" but can't find anything, do you mean to use a Fat32 partition as the physical bridge between the mac and the xp machine? if so, i don't see how that would load in xp anyway if parallels doesn't support firewire (which is a huge setback and deal breaker for me)

-can you describe this bridge solution better ebernet?

hopefully boot camp does support firewire, and hopefully by the time apple buys parallels and puts it in the os it'll support firewire too.

-anyone know of any driver add ons or extra software that will make parallels work with firewire?


thanks,
m

 

If you're not looking for high performance, you could share your firewire drive while mounted in OSX and then connect to it via Windows Explorer.

 

just an update for people on firewire external drives 400 and 800:

Boot camp 1.2 works with external firewire 400 and 800 drives.

i did a little test with parallels vm using my boot camp install as its drive to see if it would keep the boot camp drivers in the virtual xp machine and work with my external drives but it did not.

i havn't booted back up in boot camp yet, but i'm knocking on wood and hoping everything goes well.

the new parallels is supposed to work with usb2 but thats not fast enough for my video data rate, so hopefully some firewire drivers come pretty soon. i can't imagine they'd be too hard to find, but what do i know.

m

 

cant you just mount it on OSX and setup a shared folder in the parallels configuration to access it ?

 

as i understand, doing it this way hits the bandwidth pretty hard and would be too much trouble for video editing. better to just reboot.