[MacDV] New hard drive won't mount

[Neil Poese]

One detail I could have mentioned is that I'm using a working ADS drive 
kit; taking out a working 120 gig putting the new 160 gig. This means 
that the case is seeing more than 120 gigs, just not the whole amount.

I could try putting the drive into another external, although most of my 
other externals are LaCie's that are difficult to get into. I do have a 
few ProMax drives, but they're a couple of years old; so I don't know if 
the age of those other cases would affect whether or not the whole 160 
gigs would show up. I might try putting the drive in one of them.

The ADS case that I have is a replacement for one that came DOA, but I'd 
bought it from B&H, and they just shipped me another one. As near as I 
can tell, it's new, but I'll check the ribbon.

One suggestion I got from a co-worker is to run the disk utility that's 
on the Mac system restore disk. I'll try that and let you know what happens.

Neil Poese

animal wrote:

> A few years ago, we had problems with an ADS hard drive.  The printed 
> instructions for attaching the ribbon cable (red line on ribbon cable 
> closest to the power supply) were actually backwards.  I don't know if 
> that will help your issue, but attaching it correctly cleared up our 
> problems.
>
> Also we recenty purchased a new ADS hard drive which turned out to be 
> over eight years old and was DOA.  After a few phone calls, ADS 
> replaced it (sending back a broken case though).  The older enclosures 
> (This one had 3 firewire plug ins which ADS said indicated it was an 
> older one vs the newer ones with 2) will only recognize 120GB drives 
> and smaller.
>
> We never use the CD's or drivers that come with external hard drives.
>
> Lynn
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