128 gig limit on older external firewire/usb harddisk enclosure..

[Nate-X]

Is there anyway to get past this or am I stuck using drivers smaller than 128 gigs on it?

 

[Emulex]

format it NTFS man

 

[RebateMonger]

Some early IDE-to-USB/Firewire controller chips had a built-in limit of 128 GB or so. The early Oxford 911 chips seemed to have this problem. For a while there may have been firmware updates, but I don't know if they are still available. I tried accessing a few of the old links and they are now dead.

 

[Emulex]

i've got a 3+ year old acomdata one that i use on the imac for time machine. it was like $99 black friday 400gb or something odd sized. you could look for a dead one. acomdata made a bunch of firewire to pata or firewire to sata enclosures.

be careful some drives were actually firewire native or usb native

 

[tcsenter]

Is there anyway to get past this...?

Yes, since you would be purchasing the new/larger drive to put in it, anyway, spend the extra $20 on a new enclosure.

 

[Nate-X]

I'm not purchasing any drives =P I already have a few 320s lol... I was just seeing if I could pull my the old 80s out and use the larger drives. I don't want to get a cheapy enclosure as my two singles have crapped out on me. The dual enclosure has lasted a while though.

That does sound familiar Rebate.. I'll see if I can try to find em

 

[RebateMonger]

If you don't need an enclosure for every drive AND if the disks are SATA, be sure to look at the recent "docking stations", such as the Thermaltake Blac-X. But if what you have fits in an "old" Firewire enclosure, I'm assuming we are talking IDE drives here, and not SATA.

The Oxford 911 chipset with the 128 GB problems was from the 2003- era.

 

[Nate-X]

If you don't need an enclosure for every drive AND if the disks are SATA, be sure to look at the recent "docking stations", such as the Thermaltake Blac-X. But if what you have fits in an "old" Firewire enclosure, I'm assuming we are talking IDE drives here, and not SATA.

The Oxford 911 chipset with the 128 GB problems was from the 2003- era.

Yeah that's about the time I purchased it.. it's never had problems so was just seeing if I could get a little more mileage out of it since I had a few 250 ide drives laying around... I'll check out those docking stations for my sata ones though. =)