Hi Len,
>>From: Len Gerstel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-Id:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Posted before, but on New Years Eve, and am guessing no
one noticed, so
I am reposting these questions.
I just picked up a Yamaha CDRW firewire drive where the
cdrw was
trashed. I put in a DVD/cdrw drive and it works fine. It
is identified
as a FireWire 400 Device in system profiler.
My questions are:
How can I tell if it has the Oxford 911 chipset? Is there
an actual
chip on board that says Oxford? I did not see one on the
top of the
interface board, but I did not pull it out to check the
bottom. Is it a
disaster if I do not have this chipset?
I see many external drive cases have a notice that they
support drives
up to X GBs. Is this a limitation of the USB interface
only, or does it
apply to some FireWire chipsets? I don't want to blow the
toy fund on a
300G hd, only to have it become irrevocably corrupted
after 250GB has
been written to it.<<
I have an external HD in a FireWire/USB2 box. When I open
Disk Utility, it shows the device as being an Oxford
Semiconductor but no mor specifics.
In System Profiler it says (I have a Dutch system):
FireWire-bus:
Snelheid: 400 Mb/sec snelheid
OXFORD IDE Device LUN 0:
Capaciteit: 189.92 GB
Fabrikant: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd.
Model: OXFORD IDE Device LUN 0
Verwijderbare media: Nee
Externe eenheid: Ja
BSD-naam: disk3
OS 9-besturingsbestanden: Nee
Snelheid: 400 Mb/sec snelheid
Specificatiecode eenheid: 24734
Firmware-revisie: BAH4
Softwareversie eenheid: 10483
My enclosure is a "Big Disk" one meaning it can address
more than 250 gig, I think up to 400 gig. Some
controllers have a limit. The HD in there is a Maxtor
DiamondPlus 200 gig, seen as 189.92.
Hope this helps.
Jörg.
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