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pablohoney26 · 2003-01-29 6:55 am

I bought a new Firewire kit to back up a another drive I was having problems with (This must be a sign to get a new system). I bought the ADS 1394 drive kit enclosure and a IBM Deskstar 60 GB 180GXP drive. This is an OS X problem only, it works like a champ in 9. I am synching the drives or even copying items to it and it will just freeze about 2-5 minutes into it. Even when I don't have anything copying to it, my system gets very, very slow and applications freeze up and I get the beach ball (force quit won't work). Any ideas? Is there so issue with drivers for this particular device? I went to the ADS site and didn't find anything for macs. Thanks for any help.

pottymouth · 2003-01-29 7:34 am

You formatted it as HFS+ (a.k.a.: extended), right?

pablohoney26 · 2003-01-29 5:03 pm

yes.

CubeDubbie · 2003-01-29 5:36 pm

I believe and am sure I got a software disk to init the drive with. And if I remember correctly it never worked in OSX. I moved it to an OS9 only machine where it works fine. Knowing this is not helpful to you but, the drive and ADS enclosure worked fine with 10.1. Again it never has worked with OSX 10.2. I presume this is an OSX 10.2 issue only and may or may not get resolved in the future but, for now it's useless at least in my case as far as 10.2 is concerned. Sorry I can't help but, I am relating that I have the same problem and there is no fix that I know of. However, should you find one would you please write me at lorenkolsonjr2@mac.com. Thank you.

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#1 2003-01-29 6:55 am

" NEW" ADS Firewire Drive Problems

#2 2003-01-29 7:34 am

Re: " NEW" ADS Firewire Drive Problems

#3 2003-01-29 5:03 pm

Re: " NEW" ADS Firewire Drive Problems

#4 2003-01-29 5:36 pm

Re: " NEW" ADS Firewire Drive Problems

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