Can't record to Firewire Drive - Too Much glue?

[trostals]

I've been trying to find an answer to my problem herein the forum and in the compatibility docs, but to no avail.

I just got a SIIG 3-port firewire card to connect my Western Digital 120GB USB/Firewire drive.

It won't let me change it to a Record or even a playback drive in Digibase.

Is it a partion thing I have to do? It's currently 1 big NTFS primary partion.
I had it as a giant FAT32 partion before and that didn't work either.

I have partionmagic so I can do any of that stuff no problem.

Indexing and system restore are turned off.
I have it set for Optimized for performance.

Other specs:
a7V600-X
3200 Athlon
1gb RAM
Digi001 LE 6.4
Not sure what else

[where02190]

Does the FW drive use the Oxford911chipset? Is the drive 7200rpm or faster? IF you answer not to either of these questions, that's your problem.

[basschair]

Hello trostals

I don't think it's the partition, though I only say that from my experience. I've got a 120 gig WD drive in a fw/usb enclosure, also hooked up to a siig card. It has one big ntfs partition as well, and works like a charm. I did buy the enclosure seperately, ADS, with oxford 911 chipset. Was yours a package deal?

[trostals]

I've had this drive plugged into a MAC before when I did some studio work at Ironwood in Seattle, and it reported it as a Oxford 911 chipset drive.

I have Western Digital's FireWire/USB 2.0 Combo SE external hard drives with an 8 MB buffer. 7200RPM.

Is there a utility to verify the chipset?

[basschair]

Just for kicks, I would back up any files that are on the drive, and then do a full format/initialization. I had weird problems a while back, and everything was fixed simply by doing this.

[trostals]

For anyone else that runs into this and uses Partitionmagic 8.0 on XP:

I looked in Administrative tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management

and my firewire drive was showing up formatted but not initialized.

I had to delete the partion in Disk management, then initialize the drive.

THEN I could use partionmagic to make it a great big fat32 file.

As a side note, I don't understand why the firewire will record with PT and not USB2. It certainly transfers files faster. 26GB is taking about 19minutes from one drive to another with firewire - it only took 12 minutes with USB2.

[JamesV]

I don't understand why the firewire will record with PT and not USB2. It certainly transfers files faster. 26GB is taking about 19minutes from one drive to another with firewire - it only took 12 minutes with USB2.

Believe there are some PT users on DUC using external drive via USB2, however USB2 has not proved to be faster than Firewire especially in A/V applications. If it was everybody would be using USB2.