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I've been having a problem with a drive in a FW enclosure. I had been thinking it was the drive but wasn't sure. I haven't had a chance to test the drive in another machine yet.
Typically I connect my scanner to the enclosure. Well, with the enclosure on my machine wont see the scanner. If the drive was the problem, wouldn't the scanner still show up? I think so, would just like some other takes on it.
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It doesn't seem the drive should be a factor - the FW ports are just a hub on the case as I see it
It sound's like the board in the case is the problem
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Might be that the second FW port on the enclosure died, an easy test would be to move the FW cable that connects the drive to the computer from to the other FW port on the enclosure to see if the drive works through that port, with the scanner totally out of the equation. Of course unmount the drive before doing that switch.
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I've done the port dance before. The drive/enclosure is equally unreliable with both ports.
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Have you done the "try another FW cable" dance too?
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[quote GGD]Have you done the "try another FW cable" dance too?
Yep.
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Bridge boards typically go bad all the way and not half way in terms of drive accessibility. If the drive is of significant issue, might be messing with the FW chain in terms of the bridge being hosing up trying to maintain.
Then - could be bad bridge - but just doesn't sound like how an Oxford bridge typically fails.
Definitely test the FireWire drive on a different Mac before starting surgery on it.
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If, after following Larry's good advice it's still hinky, there's one last step before the trash bin.
Remove the drive from the enclosure and connect the enclosure as the ONLY device on firewire. Then reflash the firmware. If it fails, then it's off to the trash. Otherwise you may save it.
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[quote Panopticon]If, after following Larry's good advice it's still hinky, there's one last step before the trash bin.
Remove the drive from the enclosure and connect the enclosure as the ONLY device on firewire. Then reflash the firmware. If it fails, then it's off to the trash. Otherwise you may save it.
How do you "reflash the firmware"? I have a no-name two-drive enclosure that stopped talking to my TiBook. Took the one drive I had in it out and it worked fine in another enclosure, but I'd like to resurrect the two-drive one if possible.
/Mr Lynn
