• Avid Media Composer

  Reformatting AVID FW drive for Mac?

  Posted by Chad on February 18, 2006 at 10:34 pm

  Was given a Seagate FW drive that was originally used on an Avid. Want to use it for a project on my Mac, but my Mac’s not recognizing it. Thought I could reformat it but it doesn’t see it at all, not in Disk Utility or System Profile.

  Any ideas?

  Dave Schweitzer replied 20 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Chad

  February 18, 2006 at 11:30 pm

  appears it’s only recognizing the drive via USB. Worthless..
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  Dave Schweitzer

  February 20, 2006 at 7:34 am

  Sounds like the firewire bridge might be fried. It’s a pretty common occurrence with firewire USB combo drives. the drive itself is probably fine and if you put it into a new case or mounted it internally you’ll probably find it has plenty of life left.

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