Can use Wester Digital’s MyBook drive on a network featuring multiple OSs, such as Mac OS as well as Windows, provided one does not install MioNet (bundled with the drive). My instincts were right then (I did not install it).
- http://raoulpop.com/2007/06/25/hardware-review-wd-my-book-world-edition-ii/
- http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t/t-300586.html (which references the above)
In my case, the drive is formatted as NTFS, on a Mac it simply appears automatically in Finder then Mac OS is able to read it (Mac OS is able to read NTFS). In retrospect, maybe would have been better to format it as HFS+ since then Windows could use MacDrive to not only read but write to it. Meanwhile on Windows I found it necessary to run the “Discover” application bundled with MyBook, which configures the network drive mapping (to a drive letter).