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FIREWIRE ODDITIES

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ANOTHERROBOT

Junior Member
hello,
i have a cappuccino tx3 in my livingroom controlling movies/music. it is a 1.2 pentium, 512ram, firewire onboard. There is a 120gb external firewire ibm drive. I took the drive to work to back up some files before a format. When the drive was returned home to the tx3, windows xp pro read it as a 180gb hard drive adn the access speed had decreased tremendously. I can only get about 4 frames a second playback on movie files and mp3's that are stored on that drive no. Is there a system file that has gotten corrupt? Did the fire wire card from the machine at work overwrite a systemfile? i dont know how or why this has happened. Please help!

thank you all in advance.

Jericho
 
Hope your drive is not formated with compression on. If compresion is on it will be slow for a PIII machine.
 
nope, its not compressed. This was my first thought too.
its odd too i got ahold of a copy of partition magic, and no errors come up - i formatted and sure enough it still sees it as a 180gb drive...

-J
 
Forgot to ask about the OS on your system. Is it possible that your system does not support partition larger than 120G? The drive itself could be a 180G one. You might want to try making two partitions on the drive -- each one is smaller than 120G. Or you might be able to download an updated system driver.
 
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