Topic: Using External Hd Enclosure With Dvd Drive? (Read 51 times)

hamwbone · « **on:** February 24, 2008, 07:42:00 AM »

just throwin a tip out, have you tried adjusting the jumper settings on the dvd drive?

CJLee89 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2008, 01:34:00 PM »

lol. firmware is on the drive dude!!

ametalheart · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2008, 02:05:00 AM »

did you try the add hardware wizard in the control panel.

Perplexer · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2008, 09:33:00 PM »

The Oxford911 firewire chipset in this enclosure initially did not support ATA-6 (or hard drives over 137GB). Interesting reading. It may have been patched to allow Maxtor drives to work properly, but chokes on other ATA devices like DVD-ROM drives.

The USB2 chipset may suffer from the same problem. You already touched on my first suggestion: Upgrade the firmware of the enclosure.

DRIVER - this might be a starting point.

4doordrop · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2008, 01:21:00 PM »

Thanks for the links Perplexer ! After doing some more reading I found you were right about my firmware only supporting ATA-5. I downloaded a firmware update for the Oxford 911 thats supposed to add support for ATA-6. I also found the Oxford Flash Utility for my chipset but it seems I'm SOL. The flash utility only recognizes the chipset through Firewire (which I don't have) not USB. There appears to be a hardware hack on the pcb out in the wild somewhere for support of any drive...just can't seem to find any info other than that.

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