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External Fire HD prob
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Join Date: May 2002
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hello ,
got a 180 external fire HD only shows as 128 gb? why is that? osx prob? or.... ? thx for your time and help
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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did you buy the hard drive and the firewire case separately? if that's the case, then you the problem is the firewire case, which can't "see" parts of drives over 128 GB.
if you bought it as a single package, then i'm not sure what's wrong - you might have to try making two partitions, one the first 128 GB and the second the rest.
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got it as a single package... will try to do the part but Disk Utility sees it as 128 so dont think that would help  (((((((
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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You need to talk to your drive vendor and have them take it back, because the FireWire case is not suitable for a large drive like the one they put in it.
OS X supports >128GB drives as long as the hardware does. (That FireWire case obviously does not.)
tooki
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Two months ago, I made the same mistake of assuming since it's a package deal, the enclosure coming with the disk should have big drive (>137GB) support. Not so. I ended up spending another $100+ buying the OWC mercury enclosure with ATA-6 support. Now it seems ATA-6 enclosures are much cheaper, according to this thread:
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=154541
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Admin Emeritus Join Date: Oct 1999
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>128GB drive support and the ATA version are not related. ATA-6 doesn't even exist yet.
Apple has released several G4 models that have only ATA/66 buses, but do support >128GB drives.
tooki
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Join Date: May 2002
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thx all for your feed back will try my best to get a new case or somthing
thx again
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hmm called in they said nothing wronge with the case !!! :'( bah using it as is till i get a better case one day 
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