[P1] ATA 66/ ATA 100 & firewire external cases??

Jim Shimozawa kotonk2 at mac.com
Sun Nov 30 06:23:15 PST 2003


Have you tried partitioning your drive - say 100G and 100G?
Jim

On Nov 30, 2003, at 5:48 AM, Dan Farley wrote:

> One of the deals I took advantage of Friday was a 200 GB HD on sale 
> for $99
> (after two rebates). Since my iBook is to small for a full size drive 
> :),
> and my tower is a dual 800 ATA 66, I knew I couldn't use it as an 
> internal
> drive. I planned to use an older external firewire drive case I had 
> and use
> it as an external drive. When I hooked it up of course I was 
> disappointed
> that it would only format as a 120 GB drive. Is this an external 
> enclosure
> issue or is my older hardware (iBook and Quicksilver Tower) the 
> problem?
>
>
>
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