OK. I ordered thi one : ME-320F External Firewire Case for 3.5''/5.25'' IDE Drives $49.75 (maybe with shipping already, not confirmed yet)
Let's see how it will work... and kitty... good idea... I will do same. If it doesn't work with Sony I can put in some HD.
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Originally Posted by jon_w
its really hard to know what you are going to get untill you get it .. and prob. the same model is around with different firmware ..
someone mentioned a tuner app for firewire -- be interisted to see that -
Originally Posted by BJ_M
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nope
well maybe some app somewhere would tell you - but since firewire is total plug and play i'm not about to install any of the various disks that come with some of the drives ... screw something up -
(a little off topic, sorry Don)
I just benchmarked my firewire drive, maybe I'm being too hard on it. It has always been plenty fast enough for all of my video capture (miniDV cam), ripping, editing and encoding needs. I have a WD 120 special edition drive in it.
I've partitioned it up with a 110 GB NTFS drive and a 10 GB Fat32 drive. I really only use the Fat32 to move stuff to and from my macintosh machines at work and at home (macs mount Fat32 but not NTFS). I wish I could use Fat32 for the whole drive but the 4GB file size limitation is a problem from time to time.
Here's the results of my benchmark:
NTFS Partition
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Sandra Drive Index 20502
Buffered Read 33 MB/s
Sequential Read 29 MB/s
Random Read 7 MB/s
Buffered Write 23 MB/s
Sequential Write 23 MB/s
Random Write 12 MB/s
Average Access Time 7ms
Fat32 Partition
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Sandra Drive Index 21791
Buffered Read 33 MB/s
Sequential Read 32 MB/s
Random Read 7 MB/s
Buffered Write 23 MB/s
Sequential Write 23 MB/s
Random Write 12 MB/s
Average Access Time 7ms -
jon_w, this is so funny... how did you know that I was just running test on my external HD ???
ACOM Data (Firewire/USB 2.0) 80GB (7200rpm) FAT32 (Firewire during test)
Sandra Drive Index : 20792 kB/s
Buffered Read : 38 MB/s
Sequential Read : 29 MB/s
Random Read : 7 MB/s
Buffered Write : 26 MB/s
Sequential Write : 26 MB/s
Random Write : 10 MB/s
Average Access Time : 6 ms (estimated)
Actualy, I was looking for that chipset info. I thought that Sandra can provide it. So far no luck. -
ACOM Data ones just like yours except 120gig is what i use a lot of .. looks liek they have good specs -- i know they are faster than the maxtor ones i have .. only problem is that they get very hot and no cooling (they stack 8 high real nice though) ... about the same performance from the lacie drives i have also
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Originally Posted by BJ_M
here). The following includes a firmware config/update utility
for the oxford911:
http://www.triumphtech.com/Driver/Oxford160GB.zip
This package includes updated firmware to make 160MB maxtors
work with the oxford911 (supports maxtors version of 48 bit LBA
I/O). But you can just use the utility to modify your firmware's
config settings instead. -
Originally Posted by jon_w
with one disk drive (~3MB/sec.), and 5 times better performance
with the same enclosure and a different disk drive (~15MB/sec).
I was able to get good performance with both drives (15-20MB/sec.)
by updating the firmware and fixing the UDMA mode settings on
the oxford911 bridge. These were slower 5400rpm disks. With
faster disks, I get about 30MB/sec. throughput via firewire (nearly
the same as when directly attached to EIDE) -
Originally Posted by donpedro
with the small power supply. Its DC output rating is actually
slightly less than what the dru500 lists for its requirements.
The sales guy told me it was OK, that the enclosure's ratings
are average ratings and its peak ratings are high enough. I'm
not sure, but I'm not a EE so I accepted his claim.
Been working OK for almost 2 months so far -
Originally Posted by BJ_M
to run the dos based recovery program not the main upload
utility. -
OK. I downloaded that utility and I installed it on Win2000 (from d:/tmp/oxf my temp dir). Rebooted machine and start FwUpload.exe. Now this is what I see (on my ACOM Data HD):
Flash Device
AMD (3.3V Devices) - AM29LV008BT
8Mbit (1024K x 8 ) -> 110ns (default)
and on the bottom
Target node: FFC0 - Firmware Rev. not available
I assume that it dos not have Oxford chipset... -
Originally Posted by bac
on both win2k adv server (a quad xeon system) and on xp pro (dual xeon)
bizzare ..... -
never mind -- it installed fine when i installed it from root of d drive instead of a folder on z drive ..... go figure ...
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Originally Posted by donpedro
looks like you have firmware that is so old it doesn't have
a date stamp (before mid 2001?). Does that sound right? -
I have no idea... I just thought that this tool can help me find answer on my question. How can you identify your Firewire chipset. Device that I am testing for now is ACOM Data external HD. I couldn't find on their web which chipset are they using.
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Originally Posted by donpedro
1. click on 'modify device configuration settings' since you
already have the oxford program installed, and see if it
brings up the oxford config settings, or
2. Look at the chip on the bridge board and see if
it says oxford911 on it. -
yep it works ... but dont have more than 1 device on at once ! or it freaks out ..
the esbuy alum enclosure is internal flash , Wise Advanced IDE Devices ,
chip ID 01 0149A4
vender ID 0030E0
hardware version 0F911
and is good for UDMA5 -
1. Nope... didn't work... Error
2. I am going to need screwdriwer which I am not going to have very soon ... -
on the ACOM Data -- it doesnt work ... it see 's the device but its not an oxford chip set it seems ..
well the ACOM work well -- must be the other good chip ... -
The utility worked for me but I haven't been able to increase my performance any by tweaking the settings.
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ME-320F Series is home now. For the begining I put inside my DVD-ROM. It works so far.
In Device Manager under DVD/CD-ROM drives I can see this :
"Oxford Semiconductor Ltd. OXFORD IDE Device IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device"
More results later. -
What doesn't run? There are settings in xp for all compatability modes - win95, win98, winnt - almost nothing shouldn't run on xp with proper config.
Panasonic DMR-ES45VS, keep those discs a burnin' -
I hope you guys don't mind me asking:
Why an enclosure whe there's also DRX-500UL external model? -
Couple of reasons.
1. At the time when I bought mine, ther was no external version.
2. This way I can choose internel/external. Whatever make sence at time.
3. I can use enclosure for any IDE drive if I need. -
This is just to report progress:
Now when I run OXFW900 Uploader I see this...
Target node: FFCO - Firmware Rev. Oct 23 2002
And Hardware ID = OXFW911.
Let's see if it burnes with Sony inside. -
Finaly !!! It works... now I have external Somy DVD burner for $330 ($280+$50) that can burn + or -. I am happy (at least for now). If I'll have any problems I will update this post.
Thanks to all of you that helped me to choose... -
Just to give you update.....
Fan that is on the back of this enclosure is starting ti give up...Pinnacle Studio 8 and DV home video editing (ver.9 already home)
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