[FW] Trouble with Firewire on External Enclosure with serial ata

[Larry Blodgett]

I have a Mac Quicksilver, I did not realize the IDE bus was limited in 
size for this new a machine.  I knew that older G4's such as Yikes, 
Sawtooth and of course B&W had problems.  Does anyone know where there 
is a list of internal IDE drive size limitations for the various macs?

Thanks for your advice on the the companies I will try them.

Larry


On Jan 4, 2005, at 9:50 AM, David DelMonte wrote:

> Regarding using the drive as an internal unit, I believe you'll need a 
> new Disk Drive Adapter to see the full drive size, however they are 
> not expensive. I had a similar problem till I upgraded. It was a while 
> ago and I cant remember the details of which adapter I bought.
>
> On using external drive cases, I've had mixed success, but I recommend 
> companies like transintl.com  dvwarehouse, and macsales. They know 
> their stuff and their support is pretty good.
>
> David
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Larry Blodgett wrote:
>
> I am always trying to keep up with the changing technology.  I changed 
> as quick as I could to DDR from SDRAM.  Now I am in the process of 
> learning and changing from IDE to serial ATA hard drives.  I bought a 
> Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200G SATA/150 drive.  I have since then tried 
> to adapt that new drive to my old IDE Macs.  I have little doubt it 
> will slip directly into a G5, but I don't have one (someday I will).  
> Here is the source of my trouble.  I have bought two adapters which 
> plug into the SATA drive and allow my IDE cable to plug into the 
> adapter.
>
> If I install it into my G4 the bus only sees 128 G.  That not so good.
>
> If I install it into and external enclosure with both USB2 and 
> Firewire, I have mixed results.
>
> Enclosures have different versions of hardware to support the drive 
> and adapt it to USB or Firewire,\.
>
> The older versions work just like the G4. (Firewire works fine but 128 
> G) (USB1 (ugh) works but 128 G)
> The new enclosure (Addonics Model AE5SACSUF) with the Addonics SATA to 
> IDE adapter works fine on USB2 but does not work at all on the 
> Firewire port.  Hook up to firewire, Disk Utility sees the entire 
> drive (~200 G) but when you erase or partition the process hangs.
>
> Does anyone else have any good advice to help me resolve these 
> problems?  Maybe this is just a Maxtor problem, I don't know.  Maybe 
> this is just a warning to let you know that all the bugs have not been 
> worked in the interfaces that support the SATA drives.
>
>
> Larry Blodgett
> lblodgett at mac.com
>
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