[G4] External Drives Not Mounting

[Robb McDonald]

I have had this problem when not using the ac adapter for the external drive
> I have a G4 - Gigabit Ethernet 400MHz 576 MB of
> memory. I have installed a Orange Link+ - USB
> 2.0/FireWire PCI card. I have two external drives: one
> case is Firewire only the other is Firewire or USB.
> Neither of the two drives will mount when connected to
> the PCI card so I switched them to the computer ports
> (Firewire & USB). I still connot get them to mount.
> Are my cables bad or what other problem could I have?
> 
> Joe P. Alley
> _______________________________________________
> G4 mailing list
> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4
> 
> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff:
>          http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984