[FW] Trouble with Firewire on External Enclosure with serial ata

[Larry Blodgett]

I see what you are saying.

the system profile (can see the enclosure interface) says this (getting 
to the chip is real problem)
I guess it sees the partitioning I did in USB.  It looks like it might 
mount. I tried running Disk Utility and it just
scans and scans forever (had to force quit).

using Mac OS 10.3.7

OXFORD IDE Device LUN 0:

   Capacity:	189.92 GB
   Manufacturer:	Oxford Semiconductor Ltd.
   Model:	OXFORD IDE Device LUN 0
   Removable Media:	No
   Detachable Drive:	Yes
   BSD Name:	disk3
   OS9 Drivers:	No
   Speed:	400 Mb/sec Speed
   Unit Spec Id:	24734
   Firmware Revision:	
   Unit Software Version:	10483

sata190:

   Capacity:	189.8 GB
   Writable:	Yes
   File System:	HFS+
   BSD Name:	disk3s3
   Mount Point:	

On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:16 AM, jeff chasick wrote:

> the SATA chip should be fine
>
> can you see the FireWire chip on the bridgeboard in the enclosure?
>
>  there might be a round sticker on it that you would need to peel back 
> to see the very light print on the chip (and since it is a 
> FireWire/USB combo, there might be 2 chips (one FireWire, one USB), 
> unless it is a 1394b enclosure and then it might be using the Oxford 
> 922 chip (which has support for 1xfirewire and 1xusb2 channel....
>
> if its 1394a, then it could be an Oxford chip (911), an Initio chip 
> (1430), a TI chip, a Prolific chip, a Genesys chip.....