Carl Freire wrote: > At 8:54 PM -0700 7/17/09, MacFiend wrote: >> I am trying to use a Western Digital Passport 250GB external HDD USB >> with my Pismo, but it mounts the HDD, but says it is unreadable and >> then forwards me to the Disk Utility. It seems the HDD but I can't >> partition it or anything. So, I partitioned it on my G4 iMac, on which >> it works perfectly, and then removed it and tried to use it on the >> Pismo; again, no luck! Is this a fool's errand or am I doing something >> wrong? Please advise as I need more than the 20GB internal HDD. > > The Pismo faces the 128GB size barrier due to the nature of its ATA > controller--a bit of technical mumbojumbo that us laymen really don't > need to know anything about except for the fact that it's the reason > your Pismo won't recognize the large drive. To get around this > barrier you need to get some extra software <SNIP> > Carl
This is a bit of a red herring, the 128GB limit is ONLY on the IDE/ATA bus, it does not affect USB / FireWire drives, however a USB drive on a Pismo would be painfully slow as the Pismo only has USB 1.1 (you MAY be able to find a compatible CardBus USB 2 card for it). The most lightly thing is that the Pismo does not like the USB controller in the WD drive OR that the Pismo cannot provide enough power from the USB port (is this a bus powered drive? if so can you use an external power supply with it, as most notebooks limit the power on the USB ports compared to desktop computers), as I don't have a WD drive to try I cannot comment further on this but hopefully someone else has tried this combination. I would strongly recommend getting a FireWire enclosure to use with the Pismo. Ben. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
