[Cube] Drive Enclosure: YES!

[George Pepper]

That was it.  I just eliminated all the possibilities, and it needed another jumper setting.  I'm in bee's-wax.

Hard to believe I figured that out on my own.


On Wednesday, October 05, 2005, at 06:02PM, George Pepper <pep27 at mac.com> wrote:

>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.
>
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>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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