[FW] Who makes a good drive and/or case

[jd c]

best bet is to stay with Oxford or Initio based devices

check sites such as http://fwdepot.com and others for a variety of 
enclosures

do you know what type of chip is on the board inside the ProMax 
enclosure?  Should be either an LSI or an Oxford 911 (or 900) chip

if its an Oxford chip you might want to try reflashing the firmware for 
the chip and see if that makes a difference.


On Oct 24, 2004, at 4:08 PM, Steven Rogers wrote:

>
> I've got a firewire drive from ProMax that's a couple of years old 
> that I'm having trouble with. It started as  just being difficult to 
> mount, and progressed to occasionally locking up (the yellow light 
> comes on solid) and making strange head-moving sounds when nothing is 
> being written to the disk. Its not corrupting any data though. I 
> suspect the bridge, as its an IBM drive inside without a ton of use.
>
> I wanted to pick up another firewire case to try to determine whether 
> the bridge or the drive itself is hosed, but when I started looking 
> around, I couldn't find much that looked decent. Lots of manufacturers 
> that I've never heard of that don't mention which chipset they're 
> using, etc.
>
> Any thoughts on manufacturers to try or avoid?
>
> Thanks,
> SR
>
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