Did I kill it? (hard drive)

[landlox]

Hi -
I got a 200gb IDE hard drive last 'Black Friday' from Staples for $20. I stuck it in a FW enclosure and its been fine. I decided to travel with it for the first time. Didn't seem like a big deal, or am I wrong? Laptops travel.

I swadled it in my clothes inside my day pack & didn't suffer any jolts. Just a lazy subway trip (I got a seat) and a 100 mile Trailways ride with the pack under my seat. I got to my friend's house and plugged it into his Intel iMac. It doesn't mount. Disk Utility doesn't 'see' it. System profile only sees 'unknown FW device'.

We had it daisy chained through his external FW drive, then tried it direct into the Mac. Then I tried it on his wife's G4 'architects lamp' iMac. No luck.

The enclosre light goes on and I hear it spinning, but it doesn't mount.
Was it that easy to kill? Is there any reason it might not be seen by these machines except that it broke? Can it be fixed?

Well. Lucky it really only contained copies of files from my 2 internal drives, and was only $20. Still, this stinks. Unless I'm missing something.

Thanks
'lox