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USB and Firewire device sharing between OS X and Vista/XP on Parallels/bootcamp?

post #1 of 2
4/26/07 at 2:12pm
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1) How are external USB, Firewire and PC card devices recognised/shared/handled on an Intel Mac between OS X and Windows XP/Vista running in parallels?

2) Any problems with any devices?

3) How well are devices supported on bootcamp? (reliability, performance)

4) Do devices work better on bootcamp Vista/XP than in parallels?

5) What happends when a USB/Firewire/PC card device is plugged into a Intel Mac running XP or Vista in parallels? Which operating system 'claims' the device? For example if I plug in a USB drive into the machine will it be seen on both the host OS, i.e. OS X and also in Windows?

6) I have a I have a firewire 400 DV consumer camcorder and a Lacie external NTFS 300Gb USB 2.0 /Firewire 400/Firewire 800 that I would like to use with an Intel Mac both on OS X and on Vista and/or XP in parallels or on bootcamp. Any thoughts on how well this would work?

7) Anyone ran any Windows video editing software on XP running in parallels? How well does firewire capture work? dropped frames? playback OK? what about on bootcamp?
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post #2 of 2
4/26/07 at 2:55pm
As far as bootcamp goes: Everything that Windows supports is supported because you're actually booted into Windows directly and not through OS X or Parallels. Everything is going to work better when booted directly into Windows because the OS has direct access to the real hardware and not virtual hardware.

As far as everything else...I don't have much experience with Parallels but, AFAIK, any devices plugged in are shared between Parallels and OS X or can be. You're going to have a hard time using the one hard drive on both OS X and Windows, however. FAT is compatible between both systems but has a file size limit of 4 GBs a file, IIRC. OS X uses HFS+ and Windows uses NTFS and neither system can use the other's disk format without third party drivers—though OS X can read NTFS but not write. Windows has had the commercial MacDrive and MacOpener available for years and OS X just recently has seen FUSE ported to it with, supposedly, full NTFS support.
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