External Drive Size Limit?

Hi Jon,

Is the 1TB drive a USB drive? Who makes it?

I've honestly never tried a drive that big.

Thanks,

Matt....

They are both the same manufacturer. G-Tech www.g-technology.com/products/g-drive.cfm

They are both USB2.0, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800. The 500GB works fine on the AXON USB. The 1TB does not work on the Axon USB. Neither the 1TB or the 500 work on Firewire 400 (edit: Firewire 400 ON THE AXON).

Both drives mount fine to my XP Desktop machine in the office as well as my Mac (but I figured that was obvious).

I have (x2) Seagate FreeAgent Pro drives @ 1TB each that I've hooked up to my AXON with no issues, so size probably isn't the issue here.

I hook them up via USB 2.0 to AXON, but I normally use eSATA to my laptop.

Jon, by any chance do these drives require a power adapter or are they buss powered drives?

BTW - I don't belive that Firewire is enabled on the AXON.....the motherboards that HES use just come that way.

Interesting Marty....

These definitely have external power supplies. I'll play around a little more and see if maybe something was loose.

I figured as much with the FW, but I thought I'd ask. If it is indeed disabled, it might be a good idea to drop that in the manual somewhere.

Yeah I figured....most larger drives require external power.

As a workaround, you could hook the drive up to your laptop and then transfer via CMA to the AXON.....not quite as nice, but should work OK.