Hi, > Anyhow, just wanted to report a Haiku success story. It handled the > matter > more gracefully than the other 2 desktop OS's. The biggest irony is that > the market leader still isn't able to find the external device, which > happens to have its native file format and autorun structure. Young Haiku > has the best end-user experience (in my particular scenario). Cool. Just keep in mind that NTFS support could shredder your disk if you mount the partition read/write. I believe Axel or Ingo gave some warning about the NTFS support in Haiku a while back. If memory serves, it had something to do with the locking and syncing implementation. On a similar note, I find the meta-data support in Windows 7 very disappointing. You can now add a whole bunch of meta-data columns to the folder list view of your movies for example, and a lot of the columns are filled out automatically, like Width/Height and so on. But for the live of me I cannot figure out how to freaking change the Rating of a movie (and other attributes with no automatic value). It appears this needs to be embedded in the file somewhere for it to work, but why can't I just change the rating right in the Explorer? I even googled this, but nothing turned up. In Haiku I would have no problem to set this all up and be searchable as well. (Although some of the automatic setting of attributes is still missing.) Too bad I need the drive to be readable from other platforms. Best regards, -Stephan