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

[Larry Blodgett]

Look what the USB says on system profiler when I plug the enclosure 
into the usb port.

USB2.0 Storage Device:

   Capacity:	189.92 GB
   Removable Media:	No
   Detachable Drive:	Yes
   BSD Name:	disk3
   OS9 Drivers:	No
   Product ID:	26672 ($6830)
   Vendor Name:	Cypress Semiconductor
   Speed:	Up to 12 Mb/sec
   Bus Power (mA):	500
   Serial Number:	2E0000001667

sata190:

   Capacity:	189.8 GB
   Available:	188.89 GB
   Writable:	Yes
   File System:	Journaled HFS+
   BSD Name:	disk3s3
   Mount Point:	/Volumes/sata190

On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Larry Blodgett wrote:

> 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.....