[Cube] OWC Firewire 3.5" Drive Enclosure

[George Pepper]

Tried all that.  With the enclosure open, the drive spins up etc. and the blue light comes on (red w/o external power, meaning the bus does not have enough power to run the drive).  But, it's not recognized no matter what.

 
On Wednesday, October 05, 2005, at 05:13PM, atoa <atoa at krak.net> wrote:

>Sounds like something ain't right. You certainly don't need or want to 
>format the drive.
>
>Make sure you have the ribbon cable securely connected. Try the other 
>firewire port. Try a different firewire cable.
>
>Try swapping the drives- put the new one in the OWC, and the original one 
>back into the Cube. See if that works.
>
>I haven't used the OWC case, but I've never had any problems with other 
>external firewire cases, both for HD and OD. Plug and play, as they say.
>
>On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, George Pepper wrote:
>
>> This is the HD that I removed from my Cube.  I want to get all of my files off of it.  Formatting it would toss all the files I want. That's the only reason I bought this enclosure.  It's already formatted, isn't it?
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 05, 2005, at 04:51PM, Laurie A Duncan <laurie at cubeowner.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you install a new HD into it? If so, you need to format the drive with
>>> Disk Utility before you'll see it mount on the desktop.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/5/05 7:41 PM, "George Pepper" <pep27 at mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Doesn't work.  Blue light is on, but System Profiler just says "Unknown
>>>> Device" under FireWire.  Isn't it just supposed to appear on the desktop as
>>>> another HD, or is there more to it than just slapping the drive in there and
>>>> connecting a FireWire cable?
>>>>
>>>> I tried rebooting, turning it on and off etc.  Just thought I'd ask before
>>>> contacting OWC.
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