Disk Utility detects wrong size on my external FW disk...

I have a external firewire disk that I want to use with my macbook pro. It is a Maxtor Onetouch. It has previously been used with linux and had some ext3 and xfs partitions on it. Works like a charm on win/lin and is detected as a 250GB disk. But when I hook it up to my macbook Disk Util says it is 128GB only. I can create a 128GB partition on it.
I have 2 external disks. I have previously changed the HD inside both of those boxes without any problem on win/lin. The HD in question is a WD 250GB disk I just bought. I tried to put it in my Lacie FW enclosure only to see that it is still detected as an 128GB disk

Did you format it using the GUID partition map selection? AFAIK, MS-DOS and FAT-32 format might be causing your problem.

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> Need some advice...as usual!
>
> I designed a site on my 17" monitor and set the margins
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>
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