BTW, you can pull the adapter off the bottom of the goflex and use it with a bare sata drive. Same thing with the 2.5 drives.
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From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of johnrobmoore
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 3:51 PM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Apple Firewire 800 Limited to 2TB on external drive?
No I first found with a raw 3TB drive and another HDX avastor enclosure that is not mine it would see the drive but gave it a capacity of 800 gigs. I then brought out my HDX enclosure which has esata connection that the other did not and it let me format the entire 3TB drive with one partition. At that point I think I just used the esata connection not the firewire 800. Today I took an old 3TB drive used to archive and had the issue I mentioned until I hooked up my HDX using esata. I also used the swiss army knife of drives adapter with usb and the drive also showed up. It is only with firewire 800 that the OS asks if I want to initialize the drive. Here is an excerpt from something I found on the subject from Apple Support Communities:
(link to thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2783299?start=0&tstart=0)
Current FireWire 800 drivers limitation - confirmation needed
1409 Views 9 Replies Latest reply: Mar 20, 2011 11:20 PM by Aussieboy9 RSS
Mar 14, 2011 7:46 PM
I just got a Seagate GoFlex Desk of 3TB USB3.0 ; I connected the device using an USB2.0 (happy the standard is still backward compatible) to see if the device is functioning.
Try it on the FireWire 800 adapter and I unhappily had to contact the Seagate support. They respond as follow :
I understand that you're having an issue getting the 3 TB Go Flex Desk to mount.
The reason for the Mac OS not recognizing the drive is because the Mac OS currently does not have the firewire 800 drivers that support drives that are over the 2 TB limit. This is unfortunately one of the limitations of the Mac operating system. At this time, Mac is currently working to develop firewire 800 drivers that support the larger hard drive size, but no information has been released by Apple, that we know of, as to when a driver update would become available."
Shirley are you saying you have 4 TB hooked up with Firewire 800? That sounds like you have a multiple drive enclosure. What size are the drives in your enclosure? Perhaps it's the actual individual drive size that is the problem. How many and what size are the drives in your enclosure. Is there a raid card to the enclosure? I'm no storage tech but I'd bet that's why yours is working. I need to try one of my other brands of enclosures to see if I get a different result.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, David Dawkins <dawk2@...> wrote:
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> Have you tried fromatting on PC to 2 partitions?
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> On 9/16/2011 1:29 PM, John Moore wrote:
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> > 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?
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> > John Moore
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> > Studio City, CA
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