<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">It might be the <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Oxford 911 chipset that did the trick.</SPAN></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV>Paul Moortgat<FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><DIV><DIV>On 28 Nov 2006, at 20:29, Ronald Steinke wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I, also, had a problem with an external drive not mounting but the problem was with my new G5 tower, not a G4. The drive shows up immediately upon powering it up when it is attached to the G4, but will not appear at all with the G5. The G5 is a late 2005 2GHz Dual Processor model with OS 10.4.8, 1.5Gb RAM, 160 SATA drive.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I tried System Profiler, Disk Utility, DiskWarrior, and TechTool Pro with the G5 and had no indication that the external drive even existed. As soon as I moved it to the G4, it showed up. The G4 will see it every time, but not the G5.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have no idea why and everything I have tried gives no success: switching cables, trying the USB instead of FireWire connection on the case, third party utilities, etc.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I finally tried putting the extra drive into a different case. SUCCESS at last, but I still don't know why it is working with one machine and not the other. Can a difference between external cases make this happen?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>