I would order 2 hard drive removable cartridge kits from www.buy.com (http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10223817&loc=101). They are $20 each. Put one cartridge shell in your work box, one in your home box. Put your new 40G drive in one of the removable cartridges and format the drive FAT32. You will have one extra removable cartridge left unused, but heck, there only $20! Linux and Windows 95 OSR2 (or some people like to call 95B) and later, can read fat32 just fine. Then where ever you are you can use your mp3's that are contained on the hard drive in the removable cartidge. Of course you have to power the box down to remove the cartridge, and power the box up with the cartridge in for the bios to see the drive. I dont know how well the cartridge handles hot swapping. In windows the drive will just show up with a new drive letter. In linux you will have to mount the drive with something like: mount -t vfat /dev/hdX1 /mnt/mp3z Does that help?? duncan wrote: > So ive got my new 40G HD for mostly for growing and conslidating my mp3 > collections... I want to set it up so that i can pull it out of my linux > box at work and drop it into a crappy windoze box that i have at home and > be able to access my mp3 stash that i gather at work (2-T1's) at home. > > I have heard a few different oponions on how to do this... use NTFS, but > my may have problems writing... use Fat16 so both can access it, no use > fat32... How is everyone here seting up their drives to access it from > both windoze and linux? > > thanks > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list