Did I kill it? (hard drive)

[LaserKun]

See, that's why I mostly buy from OWC Larry! Man, that is some great help about external drives. Thanks; it answered some questions I have also, and, right now at least, all my drives are working, even the $30 FW Smartdisk I just got (thanks to the RUN FOOLS® posts).

[Racer X]

the fact that Larry has a kid at home that is just weeks old, and he replies to posts like these tells me that he is 1. dedicated to customer service 2. up late feeding the iKid 3. the wife is still pissed off that she got knocked up in the first place. 4. we are his real children, as we are a never ending source of moy and wonderment, where only a few of you actually need your diapers changed.

[landlox]

Okey Doke -
Yup - will try the FW jumper switch and the internal install when I get home, thanks.
And if the enclosure is bad I certainly will look into OWC's

thanks
'lox

[landlox]

OWC Larry & everybody :

I got home and plugged the enclosure back into my Mac.
In short, yesterday and today the drive - still in the FW box - mounted after at least a half hour of being plugged in and turned on and not seeming to be working. The first day I got an alert of an 'unreadable drive' at first, but later mounted....

I hadn't gotten around to even trying any of the very good suggestions I got here. The jumpter switch remains where it was.

Same message, a bit more detail:

As expected, nothing happened. Before experimenting with swapping drives, etc, I was catching up on mail etc. A half hour later or more the Mac suddenly put up an alert box saying there was an 'unreadable drive'.

I canceled the message and tried different combinations of looking at the System Profile & turning off and on, and plugging in and out, that drive and my other FW device, a CD-burner.... Then I tried the Apple Disk Utility and somewhere around that time the external FW drive mounted perfectly.

I quickly started a copy of the couple of iMovie projects that are really the only thing that wasn't on my other drives. 40gb worth. Then I shut down the Mac & went to sleep.

This morning I started the Mac up and again the FW drive wasn't mounting. This time it finally did again quite a long while later - this time without any alert warning. It just appeared on my desktop.

I figure this pretty much means its something about the FW box and not the drive. What do you think?

What do you think?

'lox

[landlox]

a PS -

Once home the drive started self-mounting (appearng on the desktop) with less and less of a delay when booting. Now sometimes it shows up normally when booting, sometimes with a couple of minute delay.

Odd. I guess it got 'jet lag' in the bus trip

What do the Oxford chip sets actually do?
Any big difference between the 911 or 922 or 924 mentioned?

thanks
'Lox