[MacDV] Re: FWHD problem to be solved?

[Mike Swope]

I likewise bought one of these drives. I expect to put it into a case 
this weekend.

OS X has problems copying large files to external FireWire drives, IMHO. 
I have an 80GB that sometimes freezes, sometimes doesn't. It's 
unreliable with OS X. Copies fine in OS 9.

Randy Wilson wrote:
> I just bought a Western Digital 175GB hard drive ($99 after rebate from
> CompUSA on their 40th anniversary sale, and it turned out to be a 180GB
> hard drive after all).  I put it in a FireXpress firewire case, plugged
> it to my iBook (600MHz 14.1" LCD, running OS X v. 10.2), and it
> immediately ran the app to partition and format it.  Couldn't have been
> easier.  I made about a 50GB partition for doing DV import, editing and
> export, so that I could wipe it clean from time to time to defragment
> it.  The rest (which turned out to be 120GB after the overhead and
> variance in definition of "GB" took its toll) is used for everything
> else.
> 
> Then I promptly copied everything I could onto it, and only made a 16GB
> dent in it.
> 
> However, at one point when copying stuff to it from a dual 533MHz G4
> desktop machine, OS 10.2 froze: I got the eternally spinning lollipop,
> and things stopped working apparently as soon as each thing needed to
> access the hard drive.  Not sure if that's a firewire drive thing or
> what.
> 
> I haven't tried capturing video to the external drive, so I hope that
> works fine.  One copy of 2GB of stuff took about 3 minutes => 10MB/sec
> transfer rate, though that was just one example.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>>>markflo at mac.com 03/27/03 09:42AM >>>
> 
> Two words:  Disk Warrior - the best Mac disk utility ever.  It will be
> the
> best 69.95 you've ever spent on Mac software.
> 
> If that doesn't do it, you may need to take the drive out of the
> FireWire
> case and see if it mounts when connected to an internal IDE bus (what
> kind
> of Mac -- this is easiest on a G4 tower).  Then maybe DiskWarrior can
> help.
> 
> 
>>Help
>>I was importing files ( about 15 clips) from one imovie project to
> 
> another
> 
>>from a FWHD to my regular HD  when a sign came up saying clip #12 was
> 
> not
> 
>>able to be imported because there was something wrong with it.
>>So, I tried to reboot and now get a message that says my Mac can't
> 
> read the
> 
>>FWHD and do I want to initialize it either in OS standard or OS
> 
> extended.
> 
>>I tried mounting the FWHD on another Mac and get the same message.
>>Is there anything else I can do to save the 3 imovie projects that
> 
> are on the
> 
>>FWHD or am I stuck having to intialize the drive and lose
> 
> everything?
> 
>>thks in advance
>>Wki
>>
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