[1394] cooldrives.com FW HD enclosure fails on G4

[Pat Chefalo]

I am using an ADS Pyro 1394 Drive Kit with a Superdrive installed in it and
my Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver) is having no problems.

Pat Chefalo
pachef at frontiernet.net

> From: Larry Hutchinson <larryh at wavemetrics.com>
> Reply-To: "Macintosh FireWire List" <FireWire at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:49:06 -0800
> To: "Macintosh FireWire List" <FireWire at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [1394] cooldrives.com FW HD enclosure fails on G4
> 
> 
> I purchased a firewire HD enclosure with removable tray from a
> place called cooldrives.com. The following email that I sent to
> their support explains my problem:
> 
> -------------------------------
> Product: removable tray IEEE-1394 firewire Oxford 911 enclosure for PC and Mac
> users!
> http://www.cooldrives.com/retriefiox91.html
> 
> Problem: works on Windows machines but not on Mac.
> 
> On two Macs, a G4-733 and a G4 dual 533, plugging in the above drive (with
> an existing Mac HD), results in no mounting. This is the case with either OS
> 9.1
> or OS 10.3.1. On both machines, other firewire devices including other
> firewire drives work fine.
> 
> On OS X, choosing about the Mac followed by the More Info...
> button and then selecting firewire from the list first lists the
> Firewire Bus under Device Tree but after plugging in the drive
> and doing a refresh, the profile says No devices found.
> 
> Since I (mistakenly) ordered two enclosures, I tested both with
> the same results.
> 
> 
> **
> 
> Also, On Win2K or WinXP, I have to physically disconnect the cable to
> unmount the drive so that another tray can be recognized. I would have
> expected turning the key to off would have done this.
> -------------------------------
> 
> It has been more than a week and I a haven't heard a beep from them
> and, frankly, suspect I never will.
> 
> I did a bit more testing and found the drive works on a 17" iMac but not
> on another G4 we have. So somehow this drive just doesn't work on
> G4s. 
> 
> Anybody know why or if there is a fix?
> 
> Can anyone recommend a similar enclosure where different IDE drives
> can be easily swapped in and out?
> 
> 
> Larry Hutchinson
> WaveMetrics
> 
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