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

[jd c]

you should be able to see the chip and the number on the chip inside 
the enclosure

if it is an Ox911 chip, you can try flashing the firmware on the board 
(you should be able to get the firmware from OWC, or you can check 
sites like fwdepot.com for the Oxford utility)


On Oct 24, 2004, at 11:52 PM, Eugene Gierson wrote:

> I have a firewire drive from
> www.OtherWorldComputing.com
> & it seems fine.
> I got it about a year ago.
> They do tell the customer
> that the chipset is the good one
> ie: the oxford 911 chipset.
> Is 911 the correct number?
> I think  that Oxford is correct.
>
> Generally Other World gets good reviews,
> but they are not perfect [is any company?]
>
> I think that they sell separate firewire cases.
>
> hth
>
>
> 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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