[Cube] OWC hardrive enclosure

[George Pepper]

Now that I've thought about it, "Of COURSE!": I had an OWC Mercury Superdrive in my Cube and changed the jumpers when I installed it, because the superdrive had to be the master and the HD the slave.  Mystery solved.

 
On Thursday, October 06, 2005, at 04:26AM, atoa <atoa at krak.net> wrote:

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>On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, George Pepper wrote:
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>> Thanks Adam, but I had already figured that out.  It was just a case of, "Hmmm.  Wonder if this jumper has anything to do with it?  Let's see what happens if I move the bridge one set of pins to the right."  Bingo.  It was just dumb luck.  I had no idea what I was doing. ;^)
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>That's very curious.
>It sounds like you changed the drive from slave to master - though "one 
>set of pins to the right" depends on your viewpoint.
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>The internal HD on a Cube is set to master by 
>default. Had you at some point changed that to slave (for example, to 
>install a different OD)?
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>If, though, it had been master, and you changed it to slave, it is even 
>curiouser. I've never heard of an external FW drive needing to be set to 
>slave in order to work. But then, I've never used an OWC case.
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>> On Wednesday, October 05, 2005, at 08:37PM, Adam Seiz <aseiz at optonline.net> wrote:
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>>> If the drive is still set to master, that may create a conflict on
>>> the FireWire bus.
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