@dlhotka it's not the software and you don't need it for being able to recognize the drive, but I agree that the drive is not 100% standard due to the hardware encryption being built in.
My Windows 8 was clean, basically a new OS with very little installed so far and it did not recognize the driver either and I have not installed any software on the OSX side in order to have it working (I did install that on my old OSX though)
Good thinking!
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Wil