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

[KhooCK]

It's a problem with the firewire bridge. You need to firmware upgrade it to
support 48 bit addressing. OMC has a website for it's drives. See
xlr8yourmac.com for details. One of my firewire case can access over 120 and
the other can't.

Rgds
Khoo



on 30/11/03 1:48 pm, Dan Farley at danfarley at mac.com 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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