RE; I too am open to suggestions, your description is quite normal to what I have had.although some difference to note,I am useing external firewire boxes that have seperate on off switches,also if I try useing either external drive box alone I get your problems as well, however if I daisy chain the two, then all is well they both show up fine,but as for system backup,I have CCC my main drive to each of the two back up drives,some things work others do not,I seem to loose a large amount of data somewhere,the Icons for it are presant,but all the info is gone,its just like the folders are empty. so it may be something to do with termination,but I really dont know much. best wishes On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 09:45 AM, Jim Reamer wrote: > Hello, > I recently bought a WD 120gig firewire external hard drive. It seems > to be working fine, I have used CCC to backup the hard drive of my G4 > 933 to the WD. However, the external doesn't show up on my desktop. If > I unplug it and plug it back in, then it will show. Otherwise nothing. > Also, it seems to run non-stop. Is that right? Any suggestions? >