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What kind of optical disk formats can Mac OS X read?
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 710329" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>We're comparing apples to oranges here (no pun intended). Hard and floppy disks use a variety of different filesystems, FAT, FAT32 and NTFS are from the Windows world. HFS and HFS+ are from the Mac world and ext2/3, ReiserFS and ZFS are from the UNIX world. Mac OS X can read and write to just about all of them, some require additional software to do so.</p><p></p><p>Optical discs on the other hand, mainly use the ISO 9660 filesystem, and an extension to ISO 9660, known as Joliet. ISO 9660 was designed with OS interoperability in mind, so Macs, Windows machines and Linux boxes can read and write them with no problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 710329, member: 24098"] We're comparing apples to oranges here (no pun intended). Hard and floppy disks use a variety of different filesystems, FAT, FAT32 and NTFS are from the Windows world. HFS and HFS+ are from the Mac world and ext2/3, ReiserFS and ZFS are from the UNIX world. Mac OS X can read and write to just about all of them, some require additional software to do so. Optical discs on the other hand, mainly use the ISO 9660 filesystem, and an extension to ISO 9660, known as Joliet. ISO 9660 was designed with OS interoperability in mind, so Macs, Windows machines and Linux boxes can read and write them with no problems. [/QUOTE]
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