• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Reformatting AVID FW drive for Mac?

  Posted by Chad on February 18, 2006 at 10:26 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?

  Craig Alan replied 20 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 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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  Annaël Beauchemin

  February 19, 2006 at 12:10 am

  Avid on Mac uses standard HFS+ format. On PC it uses standard NTFS. There’s no special Avid format.

  If you don’t see a FW device in system profiler, then either its FW port or your FW cable is busted.
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  Craig Alan

  February 19, 2006 at 4:34 pm

  If the same cable and port work for another drive then they are not the problem. I would reformat it using any combo that does recognise it and then try it again on the problem port. I would also check to see if there is any firmware update from the drive company or the firewire card company.

  OSX 10.3.8; Quicksilver Dual 1 gig; FCP 3.0.4; Sony camcorder vx2000; write professionally for a variety of media

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