OWC says their PCI card is supported out of the box by OS X, so I'd start with the assumption that it's not the card that's experiencing the problems.
Before trying to mount your problematic FireWire hard drive under OS X, be absolutely certain you've backed up anything on the drive you don't want to lose. The first place I'd start is plugging in and powering on the CD and Oxford 911 hard drive. Put a known-good CD-ROM disk (not CD-R/W) in the Panasonic. Open Disk Utility (in Applications/Utilities). Do the two FireWire drives show up in the tree to the left of the window? How about the partitions? If the partitions show up, but aren't mounted on the desktop, select one of the unmounted partitions on the CD in the drives tree, then select "mount" in the options menu. If it then mounts, you may have no further problems and you can go on to try to mount the hard drive. If CD doesn't mount, do not attempt to access the hard drive under OS X until you're sure you've resolved the underlying problems. If you can't mount the CD-ROM, report back with what happened and what version of OS X you're using. On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 09:18 PM, Mick Ring wrote: > This year I purchased an OWC Firewire PCI card and installed it into my > Beige G3. I used it successfully with OS 9 for several months. > Recently I > switched to OS X and now I can't get any Firewire devices to show up. > > I've tried two different Firewire hard drives, one that has the Oxford > 911 > chipset. Neither will mount on the desktop. > > I've also got a Yamaha Firewire CD-RW drive that Toast can't seem to > find. > > I checked Apple System Profiler and it shows the Firewire card but no > devices attached to it. Tonight I switched the PCI slot and that made > no > difference. > > I'll probably give OWC a call tomorrow but I thought I'd bounce it off > the > experts here first. Anybody seen anything like this? Is there a secret > that > I don't know about? Do I need to install drivers? -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
