New WD Caviar 320 drive - only gives me 128 GB capacity....?

I recently replaced the drive in one of my LaCie d2 external cases with a Western Digital Caviar SE 320 GB drive. This drive will be used as an external drive on a firewire cable. I erased (initialized) the drive and it comes up at 128 GB, not 320 as it should.
I'm using an iMac Core Duo 20" and System 10.4.8 OS.
I have other WD drives of greater than 128 GB capacity that work fine on my Intel iMacs... but not these new ones. Disk Utility isn't helping me out here and both LaCie and Western Digital refer me to Apple's Disk Utility to format/initialize. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi DHart,
sounds to me like either the LaCie case needs an upgrade to support 48-bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing) (necessary for driver bigger than 128GB) or the WD disc has a jumper set on it to make only 128GB useable.
How old is the LaCie case ?
How big was the disc that was formerly in the case ?
Is a Firmware upgrade possible ?
Have a look at the jumper settings of the WD drive for something like "use only 128GB capacity".
Could be set at factory to make the disc work on older PCs.
Regards
Stefan

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