03-31-2007, 09:43 PM
And this be good advice - connect it up internally. If it works - FW Case is bad. If not work, no show in Disk Utility- drive is bad.
something else you can do... with the FireWire drive attached - does Apple System Profiler see it as connected to the FireWire bus? Even without a working drive, our FireWire enclosures still report there and I'd expect this one would too.. if it's not reporting, can almost bet that the drive will work connected to an internal IDE/ATA since would suggest case is bad.
Power supply probably not the issue if the drive is spinning up normal.
[quote JoeH]I have heard of some enclosures being finicky about the jumper position, working better with the jumper set in the Master position. But usually that is consistent, not sometimes works and other times not. If the drive itself has not failed, check by hooking up directly to an IDE bus, or in another FW case, could be the power supply on your external case is gone bad. Symptoms of it starting to spin up, but never mounting sound like what happens when a drive does not get enough voltage on the 12 V side to spin up to full speed.
something else you can do... with the FireWire drive attached - does Apple System Profiler see it as connected to the FireWire bus? Even without a working drive, our FireWire enclosures still report there and I'd expect this one would too.. if it's not reporting, can almost bet that the drive will work connected to an internal IDE/ATA since would suggest case is bad.
Power supply probably not the issue if the drive is spinning up normal.
[quote JoeH]I have heard of some enclosures being finicky about the jumper position, working better with the jumper set in the Master position. But usually that is consistent, not sometimes works and other times not. If the drive itself has not failed, check by hooking up directly to an IDE bus, or in another FW case, could be the power supply on your external case is gone bad. Symptoms of it starting to spin up, but never mounting sound like what happens when a drive does not get enough voltage on the 12 V side to spin up to full speed.