When I go to the Disk Management System tool, it only recognizes 128GB, thus there is no available space to partition. I only have one partition and it is 128GB.
Going by the link I posted above concerning ATA6 limitations, I'm inclined to think that you may have the older gen oxford chipset if you can't use>137GB while using XP/Win2K.
The DOS version of Partition Magic won't recognize the full size of my 180GB drive but I can't speak about using PM in windows with the firewire drive.
I was given an ATA-6 controller card with the hard drive. If I were to install it on a desktop with the controller card and partion the harddrive, then install it back in the firewire enclosure, would it work to its full capacity on my laptop?
Normally ATA restrictions do not apply on firewire. On desktops the max hard disk size was limited to 132 Gb because of restriction build into the ATA controler. In firewire drives this controler is in the casing of the drive and translates requests for data to firewire packets (who do not have any limitations). So normally it is not hardware related. The idea about partitioning the drive on a seperate desktop system might work but : Once you have done this do an extensive test to be sure youre laptop will not corrupt the disk when writing data to it.
The thing somms refers to is a firewire bridge. This is the chip that translates firewire requests to ATA requests and vice versa. Since this is in the maxtor case it should be compatible with drives greater than 137 Gb (it would be really stupid of maxtor to combine a 160 Gb hard disk with a controler that does not support it). However the maxtor firewire chip does not really support this big drives, the support is implemented through some sort of hack. I recommend contacting maxtor as they no doubt have encountered this problem before.
of the point, I do not recommend using one big 160 Gb partition. Using FAT32 will give you so large clusters you will waste more than 10% of your hard disk. NTFS is better, but defragging such a drive in NTFS takes an eternity!!!
I recommend 2 80 Gb NTFS partitions. Its gonna be faster & you will not have as much cluster waste.
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http://www.wiebetech.com/ATA6firewire.htm
You need the newer Oxford Semiconductor OXFW911 FireWire chip to support drives>137GB.
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Going by the link I posted above concerning ATA6 limitations, I'm inclined to think that you may have the older gen oxford chipset if you can't use>137GB while using XP/Win2K.
The DOS version of Partition Magic won't recognize the full size of my 180GB drive but I can't speak about using PM in windows with the firewire drive.
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I was given an ATA-6 controller card with the hard drive. If I were to install it on a desktop with the controller card and partion the harddrive, then install it back in the firewire enclosure, would it work to its full capacity on my laptop?
Thank you
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Normally ATA restrictions do not apply on firewire. On desktops the max hard disk size was limited to 132 Gb because of restriction build into the ATA controler. In firewire drives this controler is in the casing of the drive and translates requests for data to firewire packets (who do not have any limitations). So normally it is not hardware related. The idea about partitioning the drive on a seperate desktop system might work but : Once you have done this do an extensive test to be sure youre laptop will not corrupt the disk when writing data to it.
The thing somms refers to is a firewire bridge. This is the chip that translates firewire requests to ATA requests and vice versa. Since this is in the maxtor case it should be compatible with drives greater than 137 Gb (it would be really stupid of maxtor to combine a 160 Gb hard disk with a controler that does not support it). However the maxtor firewire chip does not really support this big drives, the support is implemented through some sort of hack. I recommend contacting maxtor as they no doubt have encountered this problem before.
of the point, I do not recommend using one big 160 Gb partition. Using FAT32 will give you so large clusters you will waste more than 10% of your hard disk. NTFS is better, but defragging such a drive in NTFS takes an eternity!!!
I recommend 2 80 Gb NTFS partitions. Its gonna be faster & you will not have as much cluster waste.
Message Edited by godim on 01-15-2003 01:53 PM
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you might risk your data!
my experience: I8100/Win2000SP3/WD2000JB/ME-350F(ATA-7)
I can partition and format a big 187GB(binary) partition into NTFS
however when I use about 110GB, file system crashes
all the above work great as long as not in such a combination
my WD1200JBs work great for years. Only recent addon of WD2000JB caused so many problems. And I do not even know what to do:
1.change another enclosure?
2.Update to the newest A15 BIOS?
3.make small partitions (but I assume I could only use the first 128G even with small partitions)