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help - firewire drive case
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Glasgow
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i have an IceCube Firewire drive case with a 3.5" 20GB Maxtor Diamond max 2160 in it.
The drive originates from a PC, but when i plug it into a Pismo G3 500 the drive shows up as a 4GB external drive.
the firewire case uses the Oxford 911 chipset.
Any suggestions on how to get the drive to show up as the full 20gigs?
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Lafayette, IN, USA
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Originally posted by davidmelvin:
<STRONG>Any suggestions on how to get the drive to show up as the full 20gigs?</STRONG>
Have you tried reformatting it with Drive Setup 2.7?
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Hmmm... Interesting.
How is the original drive formatted? The reason I ask is I want to format my HFS+ drive (60 GB) as FAT32, so that my PC can use it too.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Zuerich Switzerland
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Wasn't there an issue about drives being formatted with FAT und used with a Mac?
I recall, that Macfixit posted something about users perorting, that after some time their FW-Drive got lost. The reason was found in that the vondor shipped the drives DOS-formatted and the Mac is to some extend not able to repair this format.
Who has experience about this?
What would be a solution to this?
Paritioning the drive and formatting only a part to DOS, so not everything might become affectd?
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2007 MacBook Pro 2.4 4 GByte RAM 320/7000 HD
2000 Powerbook Pismo G3 500 MHz, 640 MByte RAM, 40 GByte HD, Airport, NewerTech Battery, integrated DVD/CD-R(W) running Mac OS 10.4.11
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Originally posted by Felix:
<STRONG>Wasn't there an issue about drives being formatted with FAT und used with a Mac?
I recall, that Macfixit posted something about users perorting, that after some time their FW-Drive got lost. The reason was found in that the vondor shipped the drives DOS-formatted and the Mac is to some extend not able to repair this format.
Who has experience about this?
What would be a solution to this?
Paritioning the drive and formatting only a part to DOS, so not everything might become affectd?</STRONG>
I'm not sure I understand but:
If drive repair is an issue then I can handle this on the PC side, since the drive will be attached to my PC most of the time.
As for partitioning and formatting, I will do this in Windows.
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