[MacDV] Re: can't see formac ext disk

[Mark Walker]

thanks for this help, but...

does this apply if the mac is saying the disk needs initialising - 
it's just it sounds more like something which would prevent any 
communication between disk and computer?

I perhaps didn't make it clear how green I am with all this. Despite 
using a mac for 15 years I only ever venture beyond the basic system 
when it involves RAM or an airport card

ditto beyond norton and diskwarrior for troubleshooting

so, as an example of why I'm confused by the reply, I don't know what 
an ATA bus is

fyi I have a 12" powerbook [OS10.2.8] and an old DV iMac [OS9.2.2]

thanks

mark

At 7:46 -0700 19/5/04, Gregg Gorrie wrote:
>on 5/19/04 3:35 AM, R B Williams at brucewll at comcast.net wrote:
>
>>  It think it would be worthwhile to remove the drive from the case and see if
>>  it is
>>  recognized as an internal under either OS. That worked for a FW drive issue
>>  once. (I
>>  later found out that the Mac PCI firewire driver extension was 
>>corrupted, but
>>  needed a
>>  faster solution than troubleshooting allowed at the time)
>>
>>  R.B.
>>
>>  Mark Walker wrote:
>>
>
>I would agree with the above ... take out the drive and attach it to an ATA
>bus (or if the case also has USB connector, try that). I had an OWC Mercury
>Elite case and it's FW bridge died (twice under warranty and third just
>after). The drive was fine.
>--
>Gregg
>
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