[MacDV] Re: new hard drives

[Jeff Fay]

Kunga wrote:

> Jeff,
> You should be able to get Western Digital to send you new bridges to 
> fix those that broke. They have 3 year warranties don't they? ADS gave 
> me a FREE upgrade to old pre-Oxford 911 bridges. No sense in letting 
> those enclosures go to waste.

Well, I'd say they SHOULD have given me new bridges, but when I asked 
the tech support guy I talked to about what they could do for me, his 
reply was "Those drives are out of warranty". (one year).

I asked "So what are my options?"

His reply: "I guess you have to buy new drives."

Needless to say, I won't be buying any more WD drives.

>
>
> BTW you now want Oxford 922 NOT 911 any more. Those are the ones that 
> can see and treat BIG HDs correctly. I had to initialize my new Maxtor 
> 200 GB drive in my dual 867 MDD and then put it in the Oxford 911 case 
> for all of it to show up. Not too handy. The Oxford 922 will let you 
> initialize the BIG drives on any old Mac and see them all big. It's 
> like a ATA/133 card in the FW box. Good for older Macs easily seeing 
> bigger drives outside.
>
>
Thanks for the heads up on Oxford 922. I hadn't heard about those.

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