Re: 160gb External Firewire Drive only showing 128GB in disk utility

[Greg Satti]

Hi Adam,

We have the IceCube Generation II enclosure for sale at Zytech which don't
have the same limitations.  Follow the links from our home page:



Should you have any queries, don't hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,
Greg Satti
www.zytech.com.au
PO Box 758, Bunbury WA 6230
Ph: (08) 9721 1125
Fx: (08) 9721 1126
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On 29/10/04 3:57 PM, "Adam Yap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Got it guys. Thanks! Oh well, good thing it was only a loan firewire
> enclosure. Anyone have a decent one on sale? :D
> 
> Adam
> 
> On 29/10/2004, at 2:19 PM, Keith Palmer wrote:
> 
>> Yes you are using an old Oxford Bridge.  It won't matter what capacity
>> drive you put in this enclosure, you'll only see 128GB.
>> 
>> Keith Palmer
>> 7 The Strand Bunbury 6230
>> Phone: 08 9791 5556  Fax: 08 9791 5900
>> On 29/10/2004, at 2:15 PM, Mark Secker wrote:
>> 
>>> was it formatting/reading as a 160 before? in the same case?  not all
>>> oxford chip sets support greater than 128G drives
>>> 
 This is truely bizarre. My 160gb firewire drive is now only reading
 as 128gb drive. As far as I can see it's using an Oxford chipset.
 Any ideas?
 
 Adam
>>> 
>>> Mark Secker Computer Support Officer
>> 
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Re: 160gb External Firewire Drive only showing 128GB in disk utility

[James / Hans Kunz]

its not so bizzare
it comes from the dark side where everything has a limit
for 3 years i used a "sarotech" external fw harddisk, a short time ago 
i fitted a 200gig drive & what do i get:
128 gig max, so it is the fw interface that pins you down, from america 
i got new fw interfaces which can control 2 hd at once & handles more 
than 200 gig per drive, my fw setup has now "only" 800gig on 6 drives 
of different sizes


cheers  James


On 29/10/2004, at 13:54, Adam Yap wrote:

This is truely bizarre. My 160gb firewire drive is now only reading as 
128gb drive. As far as I can see it's using an Oxford chipset. Any 
ideas?


Adam


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Re: 160gb External Firewire Drive only showing 128GB in disk utility

[Adam Yap]

Got it guys. Thanks! Oh well, good thing it was only a loan firewire 
enclosure. Anyone have a decent one on sale? :D


Adam

On 29/10/2004, at 2:19 PM, Keith Palmer wrote:

Yes you are using an old Oxford Bridge.  It won't matter what capacity 
drive you put in this enclosure, you'll only see 128GB.


Keith Palmer
7 The Strand Bunbury 6230
Phone: 08 9791 5556  Fax: 08 9791 5900
On 29/10/2004, at 2:15 PM, Mark Secker wrote:

was it formatting/reading as a 160 before? in the same case?  not all 
oxford chip sets support greater than 128G drives


This is truely bizarre. My 160gb firewire drive is now only reading 
as 128gb drive. As far as I can see it's using an Oxford chipset. 
Any ideas?


Adam


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November

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No Warrantee!

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[OT] Star Wars Episode III trailer due Nov 8!

[Rod]

Hi All!

For the Star Wars nuts, the trailer for Episode III is due on Nov 8 
(Nov 2 for those who have joined Hyperspace).  The teaser poster is up 
on the web already.


Let's hope the final installment is a good one!



Seeya

Rod!

Re: 160gb External Firewire Drive only showing 128GB in disk utility

[Keith Palmer]

Yes you are using an old Oxford Bridge.  It won't matter what capacity 
drive you put in this enclosure, you'll only see 128GB.


Keith Palmer
7 The Strand Bunbury 6230
Phone: 08 9791 5556  Fax: 08 9791 5900
On 29/10/2004, at 2:15 PM, Mark Secker wrote:

was it formatting/reading as a 160 before? in the same case?  not all 
oxford chip sets support greater than 128G drives


This is truely bizarre. My 160gb firewire drive is now only reading 
as 128gb drive. As far as I can see it's using an Oxford chipset. Any 
ideas?


Adam


Mark Secker Computer Support Officer

Re: 160gb External Firewire Drive only showing 128GB in disk utility

[Mark Secker]

was it formatting/reading as a 160 before? in the same case?  not all 
oxford chip sets support greater than 128G drives


This is truely bizarre. My 160gb firewire drive is now only reading 
as 128gb drive. As far as I can see it's using an Oxford chipset. 
Any ideas?


Adam


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160gb External Firewire Drive only showing 128GB in disk utility

[Adam Yap]

This is truely bizarre. My 160gb firewire drive is now only reading as 
128gb drive. As far as I can see it's using an Oxford chipset. Any 
ideas?


Adam

U2 iPod in Australia?

[Rod]

Hi All!

Anybody know more info on the special edition U2 iPod?  When you go to 
the Australian Apple Store online, clicking on the link gives you a 
response to ring Apple.  Obviously the US site has all the info.


I wonder if the iTunes U2 Collection offer is holding up releasing more 
info here. In the US, buying the U2 iPod gets you $50US off the U2 
Digital Box Set collection (ie download from iTunes Music Store).  I 
have a few mad U2 fans here that would love one, but are unsure if they 
will get all the goodies that the US model has.


Any ideas?

Seeya

Rod!

Re: Now OT: Re: "Even I didn't know Windows had gotten this bad"

[Nancy McIntyre]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:33:32 +0800  Craig Ringer wrote

"One thing you mac folks can do to help stranded WinXP users (Can't
connect to the 'net to get the updates they need to make it possible to
use the 'net - hehe) you run into is keep the odd CD around with WinXP
Service Pack 2, ZoneAlarm, AVG, Spybot, Ad-Aware, Firefox, and
Thunderbird on it."

Nooo!  Don't pull them out of the water.  Throw them their own 
lifeboat and tell them to row it themselves.


Hardware and software is simply not the whole solution.
Users need to be flexible in their response to this kind of vandalism 
and exploitation.  They need to to be informed and supported in their 
use of a product.That lack of support from the retailer ( I will 
leave the question of pirated systems for another discussion)  is the 
reason that Windoze is getting trashed.
The purveyors of pr0n and those sleazy self-referring advertisers 
walked right in to a network which was **by design** (emphasis 
because I haven't bought the Microsoft 'we wanted the product to be 
multi-capable out of the box' story) made up of ready-to-use robots 
with every socket open, bleeding  and ready for business.  Microsoft 
designed Windoze for a captive network - just the same as AOL's - and 
were caught wrong-footed by the explosion of the web.  First AOL put 
up a reasonable fight and then the net just took off and left them 
both for dead.
Microsoft's response?  Keep plugging away at the default networking 
inherent in their distribution to make IE the dominant browser and 
hope it would keep their monopoly on top.  Not a single thought for 
the isolated home user who was basically a big advertising black hole.


And when users began finding out how to tweak their systems and tune 
their network, Microsoft's gift to pr0n - Activex - put the whole 
shebang back into the back alleys again.   And then the Javascript 
mess   etc etc.  None of which would have had the possibility of 
being so destructive of the net without the dominance of IE.


And all the time where was the UI going to help those ma and pa users?
who?  Microsoft threw them the balloon tool-tip and made their 'help' 
the most dense geek document ever. Need help?  Just come on over to 
our dense, slow web site and get lost in the mess.  'Just keep on 
clicking you mugs' was the message I always got.  Lie back and think 
of England ;-)


So the situation today, with sleaze browser hijacks and most of the 
other malware in IE is that, despite Microsoft's cute last-minute 
pose as a caring retailer, the majority of stand-alone home users of 
Windoze are using a net interface which is crippled to a greater or 
lesser degree.  Those that don't need help are the ones like me who 
had to get far more knowledge about the workings of WindoZe than they 
ever wanted to - and who have ended up spending a significant 
proportion of their online time helping  many others who either 
haven't taken the time to become a bit geek or who shouldn't be 
expected to be as technically proficient and who not unreasonably shy 
at paying $100 (most tech companies quote around this now) every time 
the advertisers break their system


To put it another way, a small proportion of the Windoze community is 
working unpaid to keep the rest of it online long enough to be the 
robots for advertising companies, who are so ethics deficient that 
they hijack browsers to inflate their page visit counters.


It really is not difficult to maintain a clean XP system but it just 
seems that home users are not getting the message from their 
manufacturer.
I am not a geek, yet I didn't find it difficult to maintain an XP box 
for 2 years with no third-party bloat.  Just the Windoze firewall , 
all the default unwanted servers turned off, and common-sense 
downloading.


I resigned from that work a couple of months ago because it was 
basically supporting the unethical malware writers.  And anyone who 
helps 'poor' Windows users by freely reconstructing their systems is 
contributing to the trashing of the web in general.


My advice to anyone Windoze who still asks?
Google is your friend.
If not, then Apple is not only your friend - it distributes and 
**supports** the best Unix distro in the world and you will never 
have to pay unreasonable rates for a basic internet-capable, home 
multimedia tool.


In the end, no single hardware or software is the answer to the net 
mess but the myth that it is Windoze's ubiquity which makes it 
vulnerable is just more spin.


The reason Apple isn't getting trashed is that users are helped 
properly to network their stand-alone machines.
They are pretty much confident and happy in their net use - and with 
justification.
I deplore the increasing scare-mongering of the Anti-virus retailers 
among the Apple community.  The only reason for this bloat-ware is to 
assist some Windoze users and I have already said that they must be 
left to work it out for themselves or get out of Windoze.
Now if OS X was to be t

iPod Photo - seen the real deal

[Karl Videmanis]

Hey guys

Currently in San Francisco - hope everyone is well.

Went to the San Francisco Apple Store yesterday, and they had the iPod 
Photo on demo.


It absolutely ROCKS!!!

The colour screen is great - very clear, and the navigation of your 
iPhoto library's and pics is simple. The clickwheel navigation is 
easier than for music!


plugged into a TV or projector or whatever - what a great way to share 
photos.


Of course - I'm biased, but I love this stuff!

Cheer
Karl

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Re: DVDBackup without Apple DVD Player?

[Shay Telfer]

I'm currently out in the field - we're trying to backup 5 short 
customer promo DVDs to HD so when I get back home I can burn them.


The problem is I'm using a G3 333 Lombard (no DVD decoder) with a 
DVD-ROM drive (from the 400MHz model).


DVDBackup (which I've used in the past on other machines) requires 
Apple DVD Player to "authenticate" DVDs before they can be backed 
up. Obviously the player can't be installed on this model machine.


Anyone got a clever solution or alternative product so I can get 
these disks back to base? I can do it the old fashioned way (just 
take them back, do the duplication on another machine and mail them 
back) but this is going to take more time then I have.


You could try Fast DVD Backup. The first burn is free :)



Have fun,
Shay
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Wanted: PowerBook G3 400MHz or 500MHz (Firewire Pismo)

[Daniel Kerr]

Hi All

I just wondered if anyone had a Pismo Firewire PowerBook they wanted to sell
or were thinking of upgrading to a new PowerBook/iBook and want to trade
against it.
RAM and Hard Drive aren't important, just has to be Firewire.
This was the last Black G3 PowerBook which was either 400MHz or 500MHz.

I know one with a dead screen was around the other day, so if someone has
one of those then would consider that as well.

Drop me an email or give me a call if anyone has anything.

Thanks heaps! 

Kind Regards
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that synth patent

[Mark Secker]

I think it was posted here a few weeks back about Apple applying for 
intellectual property protection on a music synthesizer design no?



anyways here it is...  not 
surprisingly it's a soft synth (like any of us actually expected 
Apple to start selling hardware synths in that over crowded, over 
priced, market)

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Re: DVDBackup without Apple DVD Player?

[Mark Secker]

if the disks are not copy protected (and not sure why  promo disks 
would be)  then surely you can do a disk image copy?


I use toast to do direct disk to disk copies of unprotected non commercial DVD.


I'm currently out in the field - we're trying to backup 5 short 
customer promo DVDs to HD so when I get back home I can burn them.


The problem is I'm using a G3 333 Lombard (no DVD decoder) with a 
DVD-ROM drive (from the 400MHz model).


DVDBackup (which I've used in the past on other machines) requires 
Apple DVD Player to "authenticate" DVDs before they can be backed 
up. Obviously the player can't be installed on this model machine.


Anyone got a clever solution or alternative product so I can get 
these disks back to base? I can do it the old fashioned way (just 
take them back, do the duplication on another machine and mail them 
back) but this is going to take more time then I have.


Cheers, Antony.
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Re: DVDBackup without Apple DVD Player?

[Onno Benschop]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 08:06, Antony N. Lord wrote:
> DVDBackup (which I've used in the past on other machines) requires 
> Apple DVD Player to "authenticate" DVDs before they can be backed up. 
> Obviously the player can't be installed on this model machine.

Uhm, "obviously" ?

Not sure why, but I'm sure you've actually tried it yes?

I suspect that with some un*x tools you could do what you need to, or
you could likely use the DiskImage tool and make an image of the disk,
but I'm not anywhere near a Macintosh - despite Mike's best efforts - so
I can only speak from a hist[o|e]rical perspective :-)

Cheers,

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Re: Bali Mac installation

[Malcolm]

Hi, I got my surgical instruments to Bali by Qantas, maybe the would do 
a deal on Macs

Mac
On Friday, October 29, 2004, at 08:06 AM, Bud Coe wrote:

I think it would be great to support the school, and maybe others like 
it.  Inevitably I have software and hardware that becomes excess for 
one reason of another and I would much rather donate it where it will 
really be valued than sell it on eBay.  Maybe WAMUG can make it 
possible!


Bud


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Data Recovery ... VLAB

[Robert Howells]

Good Morning,

I do not remember if this software has been previously mentioned so
in the event it helps somebody here is a link to VLAB.

Will recover trashed files ( within reason ) etc. Trial available .
Good reviews

Have Fun

Bob

DVDBackup without Apple DVD Player?

[Antony N. Lord]

I'm currently out in the field - we're trying to backup 5 short 
customer promo DVDs to HD so when I get back home I can burn them.


The problem is I'm using a G3 333 Lombard (no DVD decoder) with a 
DVD-ROM drive (from the 400MHz model).


DVDBackup (which I've used in the past on other machines) requires 
Apple DVD Player to "authenticate" DVDs before they can be backed up. 
Obviously the player can't be installed on this model machine.


Anyone got a clever solution or alternative product so I can get 
these disks back to base? I can do it the old fashioned way (just 
take them back, do the duplication on another machine and mail them 
back) but this is going to take more time then I have.


Cheers, Antony.
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Re: Bali Mac installation

[Bud Coe]

I think it would be great to support the school, and maybe others like 
it.  Inevitably I have software and hardware that becomes excess for 
one reason of another and I would much rather donate it where it will 
really be valued than sell it on eBay.  Maybe WAMUG can make it 
possible!


Bud

Re: "Even I didn't know Windows had gotten this bad"

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 28/10/2004, at 12:38 PM, Mark Secker wrote:


So are there many others out there experiencing this sort of thing?






I once installed Windows 2000 Server on a clean, newly formatted HD. 
and installed MacAfee Virus Scan as a first priority.  By the time the 
updated virus libraries had downloaded from the MacAfee site the 
machine was already infected.


And just yesterday I was called out to treat a Win 98 computer which 
had been running well until the client connected to ADSL a few weeks 
ago. When I got there yesterday the computer was all but unusable, 
having been flooded with massive doses of Spyware.


This lady is now in the market for a new computer, but the FUD factor 
is still preventing her from seriously considering a Mac, despite my 
best efforts.


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