FIREWIRE ODDITIES

[ANOTHERROBOT]

hello,
i have a cappuccino tx3 in my livingroom controlling movies/music. it is a 1.2 pentium, 512ram, firewire onboard. There is a 120gb external firewire ibm drive. I took the drive to work to back up some files before a format. When the drive was returned home to the tx3, windows xp pro read it as a 180gb hard drive adn the access speed had decreased tremendously. I can only get about 4 frames a second playback on movie files and mp3's that are stored on that drive no. Is there a system file that has gotten corrupt? Did the fire wire card from the machine at work overwrite a systemfile? i dont know how or why this has happened. Please help!

thank you all in advance.

Jericho

 

[ANOTHERROBOT]

has anyone even heard of this hapening?

 

[lobadobadingdong]

call ibm......

 

[cz]

Hope your drive is not formated with compression on. If compresion is on it will be slow for a PIII machine.

 

[ANOTHERROBOT]

nope, its not compressed. This was my first thought too.
its odd too i got ahold of a copy of partition magic, and no errors come up - i formatted and sure enough it still sees it as a 180gb drive...

-J

 

[cz]

Forgot to ask about the OS on your system. Is it possible that your system does not support partition larger than 120G? The drive itself could be a 180G one. You might want to try making two partitions on the drive -- each one is smaller than 120G. Or you might be able to download an updated system driver.