[MacDV] Re: can't see formac ext disk

Gregg Gorrie ggorrie at telus.net
Wed May 19 07:46:09 PDT 2004


on 5/19/04 3:35 AM, R B Williams at brucewll at comcast.net wrote:

> It think it would be worthwhile to remove the drive from the case and see if
> it is
> recognized as an internal under either OS. That worked for a FW drive issue
> once. (I
> later found out that the Mac PCI firewire driver extension was corrupted, but
> needed a
> faster solution than troubleshooting allowed at the time)
> 
> R.B.
> 
> Mark Walker wrote:
> 

I would agree with the above ... take out the drive and attach it to an ATA
bus (or if the case also has USB connector, try that). I had an OWC Mercury
Elite case and it's FW bridge died (twice under warranty and third just
after). The drive was fine.
-- 
Gregg



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