[MacDV] Re: re hard drive enclosure

[Gregg Gorrie]

on 7/13/04 4:15 AM, R B Williams at brucewll at comcast.net wrote:

> Anyone know what it takes for an external FW drive to mount big discs in OSX
> Panther? I
> just purchased 2 external firewire boxes that were identified on the packaging
> to handle
> big disks (137 gb & larger) but they don't. The Mac system profiler shows -
> 
> Capacity - 2 TB
> Manufacturer - Shining Technology, Inc
> 
> But it identifies the installed drive as 127 mb total size (It's a 180). The
> same drive
> shows its full capacity when mounted on the internal ATA bus.
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts.   R.B.
> 

What model of computer are you using? I know that older computers with
certain 3rd-party IDE/ATA cards had this limitation too ... not sure about
3rd-party FW cards.
-- 
Gregg