Max Firewire drive capactity
Hi all,
I have a WD My Book Studio II striped giving 2TB on my Firewire 800 port.
WD now have a 2TB drive available, I plan to swap out the two 1TB drives for the newer 2TB drives, it looks like the My Book will support these new drives. So I get a 4TB FW800 disk!
*But will my FW800 port support a 4TB disk?*
(The two 1TB disks will replace older disks I have inside my MacPro)
Disk performance is OK for me, but low operating noise levels are very important to me. Hence using these WD green disks, low noise and low temperature than regular disks.
Note: Apple Does not support disk sizes greater than 1TB on its SATA ports, well on my 2006 MacPro anyway.
Thanks for the answer about FW800.
But I am not sure about your answer on SATA, I originally wanted to connect the My Book to SATA, my MacPro not recognize the drive, not even that anything was connected. Connecting through FW800 was slower but usable.
So I had a look around and it seems there is a 1TB limit, I have also seen a posting from someone in here complaining that a new WD 2TB disk does not get recognized by the MacPro SATA port.
Maybe its a WD problem? Nnless someone can confirm they have directly connected a >1TB disk to a SATA port.
Similar Messages
-
RAC with Oracle Linux (Using firewire drive)
Guys
Did anyone install RAC (10g or 11g) using Oracle Linux using firewire drive? Does Oracle linux support firewire technology?
Please share your experience.
Regards
PJStart here
Installing Oracle Database 11g Release 1 on Enterprise Linux 5 (32- and 64-bit)
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/smiley-11gr1-install.html#kernel
My installation:
[root@linux3 OCFS2]# uname -a
Linux linux3 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jun 5 23:11:13 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
OCFS2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 274826 May 2 17:22 ocfs2-2.6.18-8.el5-1.2.8-2.el5.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9123303 May 2 17:23 ocfs2-2.6.18-8.el5-debuginfo-1.2.8-2.el5.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1144294 May 2 17:27 ocfs2-tools-1.2.7-1.el5.i386.rpm
Others rpms needed in my case after installation
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39297 Jun 7 2007 rsh-server-0.17-37.el5.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126577 Jun 7 2007 xinetd-2.3.14-10.el5.i386.rpm
lsmod
parport 37513 2 lp,parport_pc
snd_page_alloc 13641 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
serio_raw 10693 0
ohci1394 32964 1
ieee1394 83252 2 sbp2,ohci1394 <-
ohci is part of kernel modules !
./modules/2.6.18-8.el5/updates/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.ko
ext3 123081 1
jbd 56553 2 ocfs2,ext3
ehci_hcd 32845 0
When the driver was loaded succesful looks similar to this, please verify other configuration like serialize_io
[root@linux3 sysconfig]# dmesg | grep 1394
ieee1394: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[201] MMIO=[ea125000-ea1257ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting...
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0030e002e04546d5]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[001106664001995a]
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
scsi0 : SBP-2 IEEE-1394
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
and here we are!
[root@linux3 etc]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1824 14651248+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 1959 4699 22017082+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4700 4865 1333395 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4 1825 1958 1076355 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes <= Firewire Disk
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5000 40162468+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 5001 6217 9775552+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 6218 7434 9775552+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 7435 10011 20699752+ 83 Linux
Please let me know if you need more information.
J -
Firewire drives fail to detect
I have this pesky blue-and-white G3 tower. When I'm booted off the installation media for Tiger, firewire drives show up and mount. When I'm booted off a Mac OS 9 partition, firewire drives show up and mount.
When I'm booted off the otherwise flawlessly performing for a while now 10.4.3 partition I've been using for a while now, firewire drives fail to show up in either System Profiler or Disk Utility.
Any help is sincerely appreciated.Okay, good idea ... I had checked all the logs ...
sudo egrep -ri "firewire|1394|seagate" /Library/Logs /var/log
... returned two instances of sudo logging me running this command, and one instance of IOFireWireLib mentioned in a non-pertinent SystemUIServer crash log from September 2004, when I had 10.3.5 on the partition.
However, I had not booted in single-user or in verbose mode. Verbose mode shows no evidence of a firewire device being detected. Single-user mode usually turns up a disk device /dev/disk? for firewire drives (I've fsck'ed more than a few) ... but this instance turns up none.
If I boot off the Tiger installation media into single-user mode, the firewire bus becomes active ...
FireWire (LYNX) built-in rev 2 now active, GUID 0050e4ff fe6e4808; max speed s400.
... and drivers get loaded:
Extension "com.apple.driver.Oxford_Semi" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.LSIFW500" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.initioFWBridge" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.driver.StorageLynx" has no kernel dependency.
Extension "com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport" has no kernel dependency.
... and the drive is addressable and accessible via a /dev/disk?s? file. This makes me wonder if I've found a kernel bug.
-peter -
Formatting LaCie firewire drive - Powerbook G4
Hi, I have a 40GB LaCie firewire drive that is doing something funny on Disk Utility. It only shows as having 18GB available, and I have tried to delete it using Disk Utility to no avail.
+Question: Can anyone suggest a way to again totally wipe and regain my 40GB?+
Also, any suggestions on how to expand my 1GHz PowerPC G4 12" Powerbook with 768 MB DDR SDRAM would be welcome, as I'd rather keep this machine going well at the moment and save up for a new 'book, love the black version!Hi Matt,
Thanks, I just did that, and it now shows:
*The top level says:*
Disc description: LaCie Group SA
Connection: Firewire
Total capactity: 18.6GB
Write status: Read/Write
SMART: Not suported
Partition scheme: Apple Partition Map
*Next level says:*
Number of folders:4
Capacity: 18.5GB
Available: 18.5GB
Used: 27.9MB
Number of files: 7
Er, I definelty thought it was a 40GB. Could it be I was mistaken, and it's only a 20GB?!! -
Firewire drives, project problems
I'm trying to open a fairly large project file, with media spread out over 9 firewire drives, and I keep having problems with the system choking up.
Most importantly, at least one of the drives failes to be recognized by the system, and it appears that the clips on it are offline. It's happened on different drives, so I know it's not a drive specific issue, and when I search for the drive name it turns out the icon for it is buried inside of another firewire drives directory. Even once I've found the icon, I'm unable to access any of the contents, which I know are safe and sound on the drive.
Is there a way to avoid this? I've trashed my project preferences, repaired permissions, and I can't think what else to do. This problem only started once the project got bloated with a lot of sequences.
I'm using FCP 3, with OSX 10.2 on a G4 400mhz with maxed out RAM. All the firewire cases are Oxford911 chips.Hi Shane--
Do you have any experience with SPINDOWNFIX 1.1 on an OSX version later than 10.2.3? I'm hesitating to install it just because it hasn't been tested any further than that OS. I'm on 10.3.9 on a MDD G4 and I'm pretty much maxed out on storage as well.
The difference is that I normally edit from my internal drives (500 GB RAID and additonal 250 GB Storage) and try to use the FW drives as backup for the projects once I'm done. FCP doesn't have any problems reconnecting files unless you're changing the filenames quite a bit.
I have ~900 GB on 4 Lacie Ext. FW drives, 3 are for A/V storage, and 1 is a company drive for project files, Images, DVDSP stuff, Word docs, etc. The first 3 drives I have daisy chained via the machines only FW800 port. The chain looks like this:
G4-->FW800-->FW800-->FW400. The other 'company' FW drive has it's own dediacated FW400 port from the G4. The other FW400 port is dedicated for my capture deck only.
My suggestion for the original poster is to rearrange ALL your hard drives (int AND ext.), so that you are working off of internal drives as much as possible (whatsize will be an invaluable tool for doing this). Then, if you truly DO have NINE drives daisy-chained, and you're done capturing (on to an INTERNAL drive, I assume), at least spread out the Daisy-chains over all of your FW ports. And as mentioned before, try to leave the drives you don't need OFF.
Thanks!
chris -
Firewire drives do not show up on network
I have a G5 with 2 external drives, 1 firewire, 1 USB
I have a G4 with 2 external drives, both firewire.
When these computers are networked,
The G5 sees the internal drives from the G4.
The G4 sees the internal drives from the G5, as well as the connected USB drive.
But neither computer sees the external firewire drives of the other computer.
I used to see these drives and made aliases for them, but they do not show up now.
I am using the admin accounts from each computer.
G5 running 10.4.5
G4 running 10.3.9
What is the cause of this problem? How can I mount the firewire drives on the networked computers?I need to modify my question. I also have a G3 running 10.2.8
Yesterday I noticed that the Network icon in the G5 sidebar had an eject symbol next to it. That seems strange, upon reflection, as if something was not right.
I shut off all the machines for the evening.
Today, I restarted all the machines. Chose Finder->Go->Connect to Server->Browse
From each machine, I was able to see the external drives on the other machines, as well as the internal drives, over the network. I did not use nor install sharepoints. It just works (with an admin account).
However, on the G5, there is an external firewire Firelite drive. It is formatted as Fat 32.
It does not show up in the Browse window when I connect to the G5 from any computer. If I move it to the G4, it also does not show up when I connect to the G4 from any computer. So it does not seem to be related to the OS version.
In other words, it seems that since the Firelite is Dos formatted, I cannot see it on the network, even though it is a firewire drive.
So how can I fix this problem?
iMac G5, TiBook, G4 MP 500; G3 beige 333, iMac 333, others Mac OS X (10.4.4) -
Ever since I realized that I was not able to connect my FireWire daisy chain to my brand new Retina MBP there has been problems. Four months down the road, I am still unable to use my FireWire drives and have experienced terrible problems whenever I connect my FireWire daisy chain to this new Mac.
I have bought two of these adaptors from Apple now and both do the same thing. The daisy chain has been working perfectly for years with my older MBP and still does! There are no problems until I connect to the new Mac.
I have 15 various hard drives in NewerTech and DatOptics enclosures for over 22 TB. When connected to the new Mac, I would have multiple apps just hang, sometimes just Apple apps, sometimes 3rd party. I will not be able to force quit them and they will keep relauching as you can watch them in the Force Quit window. The Finder will hang and there is no relaunching it. I am having to do a force shutdown twice an hour which leaves no time for work!
After four months of this, now I am being told that Apple will buy back my Mac at full price. But I have basically lost the good part of four month’s worth of work because of constantly fighting the new Mac. This is cost me all my savings and I am about to lose a client. It certainly seems that releasing Thunderbolt1 was a huge, huge mistake.
Does anyone know of any large Fire Wire daisy chain working with Thunderbolt?
TIA,
RYes, my first post is all about how darn iffy the adaptors are and I have two of them to return now.
I question your answer because I am betting that four drives that are in one enclosure NOT all RAIDed together as one drive, but as four separate drives that those four drive will count as four devices. The daisy chain that I had going had eight drives in TWO quad boxes, four drives in TWO dual drives and another drive in a single enclosure. A total of five “devices” if you will, but also a total of 13 drives that were usually in this daisy chain.
Both of the Apple branded Thunderbolt to FireWire adaptors chocked BIG TIME on this and it works no problem on my older MBP. You basically can not use a new Mac when you are connected to a daisy chain like this!
Just checked the Apple website and indeed, I can get a new MBP with FireWire 800, just not with the Retina display! I wish that I would have known this five months ago before this all started! -
Can't properly open fcp6 project on firewire drive on another computer
I have a long and complex fcp6 project that I have been editing with fcp6 on my piwermac g5 quad running leopard. The media and render files are each split between my boot drive and a second internal drive. I copy both drives onto a partitioned FireWire drive and then plug it into my macpro 3.1. The names on the FireWire partitions are exactly the same as the powermac drive names. The project opens perfectly on the 8 core macpro from the FireWire drive and I am able to render and other things much faster . However, I am about to outgrow the 1TB FireWire drive, so I got a larger one. I duped both partitions onto the similarly partitioned and identically named new bigger firewire drive....but when I go to open the project half the media filess are disconnected and even after I manually reconnect all kinds of error messages come up and the project is totally unworkable. So, why does the first firewiure drive work perfect but not the cloned nee FireWire drive? I even put an extra internal drive in the macpro and cloned the original FireWire to it but it does the same thing as the new FireWire, totally unworkable. I don't understand why things work perfectly with first FireWire but not with any other internal or external drive. Any help would be tremendously appreciated.
The original fiteewire which does open on the mac pro was partitioned apple partition map. The new FireWire drive that doesn't open properly is also apm, but I've erased and partitioned i GUID. I've tried using both disk utilities and superduper for the cloning in the past. I'm doing the cloning onto the guid partitions right now and will let you know if it helps in the morning. At any rate I appreciate your help.
-
How to secure firewire drive data for multi user mac ?
I have a couple of external firewire hard drives attached to my mac which contain all my work files.
My 6 yr son has started using my mac so I have set him up his own account and set up the parental controls etc.
BUT - is there any way I can set things up so the firewire drives dont appear to him or so he cant delete anything ?
It seems fairly straightforward to protect files files on the main hard drive but these firewire drives mount every time a user logs on and he seems to have full access to them.
Thanks in advance if you can help.
emac Mac OS X (10.4.9)
emac Mac OS X (10.4.9)Log in under your account, and highlight the drive on the Desktop. Click cmd-i to Get Info. Make sure that, under Ownership and Permissions, you do not have "Ignore Ownership on this Drive" ticked. Now, again using Get Info, make sure that all top-level folders are owned by you, and that other users do not have access. (You might want to reduce the number of top-level folders to make this easier.)
Now log in as your son and make sure you don't have access to those folders.
Matt -
How do I use a firewire drive as my start up disk?
I have a 12" powerbook that I am trying to use with an external firewire drive as my start up disk. aI install 10.5 easyily but then when I try to start up from that drive it will not recognize the drive as a Start up disk. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong.
First, what Disk Utility tells you is correct, that SMART indicators aren't supported on an external drive. Nothing is wrong.
I might try this approach .... get SuperDuper at http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html, download it to your internal hard drive, then use it to copy your internal drive to your external drive. Make sure the option to make the external drive bootable is checked. When that's done, reboot holding the option key down, and choose the external drive to boot from. That should work with the firewire connection. -
How do I install a bootable copy of Tiger to an external Firewire drive?
I've got a problem with my optical drive and cannot boot from a CD or DVD on my 17" flat panel iMac, running 10.2.8. I have bought Tiger and would like to upgrade my OS but want to be able to run some disc repair utilities on the iMac prior to doing the upgrade but can't run them on my boot disc.
I'd like to be able to install Tiger on my external FW hard drive, install Techtool pro on that same drive and then try to repair the internal drive on my iMac by booting from the external drive. Is that possible? Is it a good idea? Can I install to the external drive from my internal Superdrive without being able to boot from the install DVD? How should I do that?
Thanks in advance for any help.
MichaelBecause you must boot from the Tiger DVD in order to install Tiger I'm afraid you are somewhat out of luck. However, with no guarantee either express or implied here's something you can try:
First, download a freeware utility called Carbon Copy Cloner from www.versiontracker.com or www.macupdate.com. Second, connect your Firewire drive and insert the Tiger DVD into the optical drive. Be sure it mounts on the Desktop along with the Firewire drive. Third, open your Disk Utility from the Utilities folder and use it to format or erase the Firewire drive. If you prefer you may wish to partition the Firewire drive to allocate a partition for the Tiger DVD (you will need about 6 GBs.) Fourth, open the CCC utility and click on the Lock icon beside the grayed out Clone button and authenticate. Then click on the Preferences icon. In the section labeled "Target Disk Options" be sure that the box labeled "Make bootable" is checked. No other items should be used. Click on the Save button. Fifth, select the Tiger DVD as the Source Disk, select the partition on the Firewire drive as the Target Disk. Now click on the Clone button.
Go away for a while because the clone process will take time. Once it finally completes you can eject the Tiger DVD. You now should be able to boot the computer from the Firewire drive partition. Open your Startup Disk preference pane, select the Tiger partition on the Firewire drive from the icon list, then click on the Restart button.
If this works your machine will boot into the Tiger installer from the Firewire drive. You can then install it onto your iMac. I would suggest you use the Archive and Install option. You may find the following helpful:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607363򔒃 -
Blue screen of death when La Cie external firewire drive connected
I tested a LaCie external firewire drive on my iMac and it worked fine. I packed it up well and posted it to a friend who gets the blue screen of death when the LaCie is connected to her iMac. She's not even trying to boot from it.
My iMac is 9.1 and hers is 8.1. We are both running Snow Leopard. Was there some problem once upon a time with chipsets or am I mis-remembering?
TIACreate an ISO (Encore) or folder on your hard drive (Encore or Premiere Elements) and then use the FREE http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download to write files or folders or ISO to disc for DVD or BluRay (send the author a PayPal donation if you like his program)
Imgburn will read the ACTUAL disc brand from the disc, which is not always the same as the box label (Memorex is notorious for buying "anything" and putting it inside a Memorex box)
When you write to disc with Imgburn, use the SLOWEST possible speed setting, so your burner has the best chance to create "good, well formed" laser burn holes... since no player is required to read a burned disc, having a "good" one from a high quality blank will help -
Firewire drive no longer recognized after upgrade?
having an onset of problems the last 2 weeks.
first upgraded to 10.4.6 on mac mini 1.42 non-duo, worked a few days than acted weird with apps crashing. had to reinstall from 10.4 disk. seemed ok. repaired permissions, ect. after reinstall (and a subsequent power outage) a firewire drive attached at time was no longer recognized by mac mini or connected imacG3. reinstalled 10.4.2 on mac mini. installer unable to reinstall 10.4.6., I would like to have firewire drive recognized again. when attached to other firewire drive in daisy chain, says device unrecognized, other wise unable to get any info on drive. what to do?I am having nearly the exact same issue as you are experiencing. My Western Digital Dual-Option Media Center 160 GB FW HD is going in and out big time. It seems to be there for a time but then conks out. I have to disconnect the power and now the drive seems to be malfunctioning.
Same story with my LaCie 52x CD Burner. I placed the Disk Warrior CD in there and the computer recognized the disc at first but then spinning beach balls galore!
This has to be one of the worst updates to an OS X system I can remember. I can only think PowerPC QA testing has gone through the toilet since the Intel move was completed. -
When I download movies from iTunes to my NAS drive, I don't get the cover art. It shows up while its downloading, but when it's finish it disappears. If it has an iTunes extra the cover art is there. I tried get info and add the cover art, it never shows. Regardless of how I add it. Funny thing is, if I download the same movie to my external firewire drive, no problem its there. I've called Apple with no success. I've even tried copying the movie with the art from the firewire drive to replace the file on then NAS drive I still loose the movie cover art. I also tried several times to re download it, no luck. Any ideas? I'm out of ideas.
Do you have any videos/movies in the video app?
In iTunes if you right click on the video and select Get Info and go to the Option tap what Media Type is shown? -
My iMac (late 2006) no longer starts (boots) from Firewire drives, although they all contain a current system (Mac OS X 10.6.7). If the drives are connected with USB 2, they boot normally. The FireWire drives appear in the Start Volume program, but they do not boot. If I press and hold the Alt key while booting, only the internal drives and the USB drives appear as options. What can I do in order to boot from FireWire drives as I always could in the past?
I'd first recommend doing a SMC reset and if that doesn't work refer to:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10333969-263.html
and
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/firewiretroubleshooting.html
SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
Roger
Maybe you are looking for
-
I cannot play any of my previously purchased iTunes songs/albums on my iPhone 5. The songs are listed as downloaded, but when I go to play them, the 'play' screen appears for about 2 seconds, and then disappears. I have followed all the steps I can f
-
Hello, At the apple store, everytime I was typing something on their phones, the phone would give me some word completion choices based on the letters I had enter. My 3g iphone however doesn't do that. Why is that? No matter how long of a word, I hav
-
Can't get rid of US English in Firefox
I downloaded FF 26 recently and although I specified the UK English download I still have US English as my default language when I switch away from German. I downloaded the UK dictionary but now it is only one of the three languages. So, HOW do I get
-
Extract PO Header Text data by SQVI
Dear All, Is it possible to extract Po header text & item text details by SQVI? If so please provide the procedure. I do not want to go for abap coding for retrieving that data, please suggest any other procedure which can be used to retrieve data wi
-
The hard drive on our computer died and we lost all of our purchases in the account. Is there a way to recover the songs we have paid for? If we plug in our iPod to a new account, won't it erase everything during the synch process? Help!