Acomdata external E5 Serial ATA(SATA) User Manual page 36

Mac OS 10.2 Users:
Hard drives or drive partitions larger than 128 GB and
formatted with FAT32/MS DOS will not mount on Mac
OS 10.2. There are several ways to deal with this issue:
1) Re-format the Drive using the Mac OS Extended file
system;
2) Partition the Drive so that no single partition is larger
than 128 GB;
3) Upgrade to Mac OS 10.3 or later. For more infor-
mation, go to http://docs.info.apple.com/article.
html?artnum=107483 on the Apple web site.
Users of Mac OS X v.10.3 and later:
If you connect an NTFS-formatted disk to a Mac running
Mac OS X v.10.3 or later, the computer will be able to
read the Mac-compatible files, but you will not be able
to save any data to the disk.
Formatting for Cross-Platform
Compatibility
If you ever need to re-format the Drive and you need
both PC and Mac compatibility, you have two options:
1. Format the Drive on a PC running Windows 98SE or
Me with the FAT32 file system.
2. Format the Drive on Mac OS X v.10.3 or later with the
MS-DOS file system. The MS-DOS files system is the
equivalent of FAT32 on the PC.
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