Yeah I'm going to try one of my other enclosures at home that's got all the same connects. I got the HDX enclosure because a lot of people said it was the cat's meow with a nice robust power supply. The enclosure is fine but if there is a limit to the chip set that's a pretty big issue for a relatively expensive enclosure box. Also the box itself is not that robust and the power connector for the drive has a tendency to lose the back snap on cover that hold the pushed in power cables in position in the push in punchdown like connection. Once the back cover is off the wires like to come loose. I've had the back cover pop off on two different enclosures so I'm not too thrilled with the product right now. You can snap the cover back on if you notice in time. The nice carrying case doesn't make up for these new found short comings in my book.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jim Feeley <jfeeley@...> wrote:
>
> I think the issue could be with the controller or bridge chips in the
> drive enclosure and not with FW800 or Apple's implementation. Or maybe
> it's a firmware issue. I did a quick Google search to confirm, but
> didn't find what I stumbled across a few weeks ago. So that's not much
> to go on, but if you Googled around you can probably find an accurate
> report on what's going on.
>
> Sorry; not much help. But Benjamin (and others) are getting closer.
> Hopefully someone here will fill you in with exactly what's going on.
> But I think it's the HDX Avastor enclosure, and not the drive or the
> Mac...
>
> Jim Feeley
> jfeeley@...
>
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Benjamin Hershleder wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > John,
> > If it helps to know . . . I'm using a 3TB drive, connected by FW800,
> > on a current project.
> > The drive is not self-powered of course. It's this one: http://g-technology.com/products/g-drive.cfm
> > I have both a 2TB and 3TB version working on my current project.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > B
> >
> >
> > Benjamin Hershleder
> > http://ContactBen.com
> > http://Hershleder.com
> >
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> > On Sep 16, 2011, at 12:29 PM, John Moore wrote:
> >
> >> So I put a 3TB Hitachi drive in my HDX Avastor enclosure and if
> >> connected with firewire 800 it wants to initialize it. I've
> >> googled and it seems the apple firewire 800 is limited to a 2TB
> >> size on drives. I saw someone mention GUID formatting to avoid the
> >> limit. My HDX also has esata connectivity and that works fine.
> >> I'd never run into this before. Learn something new every darn
> >> day. Is there a way around the 2TB on firewire 800 limit?
> >>
> >> John Moore
> >>
> >> Barking Trout Productions
> >>
> >> Studio City, CA
>
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