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--I used Intech Software's > Hi-Cap driver. You can read about this particular issue and the > software here:
The 128 Gb limit applies to the IDE controller attached to the drive which in this case is the USB - IDE adapter INSIDE the drive case. The internal controller of the Pismo doesn't matter in the least. I have hooked up 350Gb drives with FireWire and USB Wallstreets, PM G3s and early PM G4s without any 128Gb problems. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
