External Firewire HDD Cannot Support > 137GB

Kevin Wang rightsock at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 23:32:34 UTC 2004


On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:46:51 -0500, morpheus <morpheus at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> ...external firewire enclosure.  However, FDISK only sees this
> as a 137GB HDD. 

gotta buy a new firewire enclosure.

the chipset in there doesn't do the extended 48-bit ide protocol
thing. forget the exact name.  I don't think that's the sort of thing
you could firmware upgrade.  not at least that I've seen.  I instead
upgraded to a usb2.0 enclosure.

   - Kevin




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