Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2006

I got my new external firewire drive in a bad state. Perhaps it is a
hardwire problem.  I have a Generic brand enclosure with Prolific
PL-3507 chipset for a ATA/ATAPI 3.5" hard drive up to 300GB or above.
PL-3507 is a high performance combo bridge solution for connecting
USB2.0 interface and./or IEEE1394 interface to ATA or ATAPI data
storage devices.

I tried to partition the firewire drive into 4 partitions.  The first
three went OK.  The fourth never mounted.  I copied some data onto the
first drive.  I got a message saying that I filled the first drive.

I restarted the system.  My system restarted:
1) Got the message, "Waiting for local disks"
2) Waited overnight with same message in morning.

System will boot OK without the external harddrive.

Any ideas?  I did see some hints on the internet that I may have a bad
chipset.

Is the a terninal partitioner?

Robert