Q: Current FireWire 800 drivers limitation - confirmation needed
I just got a Seagate GoFlex Desk of 3TB USB3.0 ; I connected the device using an USB2.0 (happy the standard is still backward compatible) to see if the device is functioning.
Try it on the FireWire 800 adapter and I unhappily had to contact the Seagate support. They respond as follow :
I understand that you're having an issue getting the 3 TB Go Flex Desk to mount.
The reason for the Mac OS not recognizing the drive is because the Mac OS currently does not have the firewire 800 drivers that support drives that are over the 2 TB limit. This is unfortunately one of the limitations of the Mac operating system. At this time, Mac is currently working to develop firewire 800 drivers that support the larger hard drive size, but no information has been released by Apple, that we know of, as to when a driver update would become available.
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Could I get confirmation as I couldn't find any knowledge base on that issue? I may have not used the proper keyword...
Thank you very much.
Try it on the FireWire 800 adapter and I unhappily had to contact the Seagate support. They respond as follow :
I understand that you're having an issue getting the 3 TB Go Flex Desk to mount.
The reason for the Mac OS not recognizing the drive is because the Mac OS currently does not have the firewire 800 drivers that support drives that are over the 2 TB limit. This is unfortunately one of the limitations of the Mac operating system. At this time, Mac is currently working to develop firewire 800 drivers that support the larger hard drive size, but no information has been released by Apple, that we know of, as to when a driver update would become available.
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Could I get confirmation as I couldn't find any knowledge base on that issue? I may have not used the proper keyword...
Thank you very much.
iMac 24" 2007, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 3TB harddrive.
Posted on Mar 14, 2011 6:46 PM