[MacDV] Re: re hard drive enclosure

[Richard Brown]

The ADS Pyro Firewire 400/USB 2.0 drives generally handle the bigger 
drives without issue. They are Oxford 911 enabled as well, a must for 
video on Firewire... which tends toward bugginess, depending on the 
Firewire configuration. Fewer drives is less problematic. We tried 12 
drives on Firewire, which made buying a multi terabyte Fiber Channel 
RAID sound reasonable, given the problems we experienced. Mainly, 
external FW enclosures can suffer, whether you want them to or not, 
from "autosleep," which is a killjoy in the extreme for OS X, which 
cannot always wake up a sleeping drive, and will lock up due to one, 
from time to time. Enough, though, that if you have a LOT of Firewire 
storage, you begin looking for more stable solutions.

It takes a hardware tweak to break the 128GB barrier otherwise imposed 
by certain Mac architecture.

Not all things get it right. ADS seems to do well, but oh, for the 
sleeping!!!! ADS also suffers, in a 24/7 environment, of having less 
than great muffin fans, and boy, are they LOUD when they go...

Richard Brown

On Jul 13, 2004, at 7:15 AM, R B Williams 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.
>
> Preston wrote:
>
>> The one I really like is labled as Bytecc (yes with 2
>> c's)(approx. $45-50).  It's an all aluminum model with no internal
>> fan, so it is very quiet. ---
>
>
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