With eSATA Firewire 400 and USB 2.0 connections.
I was going to get the Studio Ed. for HKD$200 more, adding Firewire 800 connection to the spec but since the store doesn’t have it in stock and I didn’t feel like going back for it on another day, I settled on the Home Ed saving $200. Since I would also need to replace the home PC’s CRT with a 22″ LCD, this $200 seemed like it could be put into good use rightaway.
Upon startup, since the Home Ed is for PC and Studio Ed is for Mac, it came with Fat32 partition. Great but I don’t intend this drive to be used as a dual system data drive. So I tried to reformat it to +HSF Journaled instead. It didn’t work.
Called Tin, and he had me gone through Terminal mode Command prompt to have it formatted. It took 2 seconds, the magic of OS X but for some unknown reasons, it didn’t get “journaled’. Tin asked me to switch to USB and see how it goes, and sure enough Disk Utility now works on USB. Had it all done within seconds and switched back to Firewire, everything seems find.
Mucho stupido!
I have numerous el cheapo Smartdrive cases and a good old Hardbox case all Firewire equipped dated at least 3 years back and my iMac is the model before the latest one running OSX 10.5.6 and never had such problems. So much for going name brand. Should have stuck with Mac versions hardware.
WhaUSay?!