I have a Maxtor external drive that was originally formatted for Windows, as a FAT 32 drive. Using Photoshop on Windows, I can specify the Maxtor external drive as my swap disk. This gives a performance boost, since 2 drives can operate in parallel, etc.
On the Mac, using the latest version of OS X, I can mount the Maxtor drive, and it works fine for typical usage (reading and writing files). This is because OS X is capable of reading and writing to a variety of disk formats (such as those used by Windows), in addition to its own format.
However, when using Photoshop on the Mac, the Maxtor drive does not appear in the drop-down list of available drives for use as swap drives.
If I were to reformat the Maxtor drive for OS X, would it then become a viable choice for use as a swap drive on the Mac ?
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