Tom wrote:
> I was given a 500-gig FireWire 800 external drive (generic, I guess;
> no logo on the metal case) as part of the deal when I bought my G5 on
> eBay, but when I plug the drive into the FW 800 port of my G5, it does
> not show up on the desktop, even with restarts. I tried a different FW
> cable, and tried both FW ports on the drive, same result. Then I took
> the drive over to a G4 MDD with a FW 800 port and plugged it into that
> computer, but the G4 doesn't see it either, so it's not likely a dead
> FW port on the G5. The fan in the case is running, and I can hear the
> drive humming away in there too, the case gets warm and vibrates
> mildly to the touch like things are spinning inside, and the blue
> light is shining steadily on the front of the case. But it doesn't
> show up on the desktop, and Disk Utility doesn't see it either.
>
> Back in the old SCSI days, I remember using search utilities that
> could seek out drives and mount them, but Disk Utility doesn't seem
> capable of that, or at least I don't see any "Search for and Mount
> Drives" option.
>
> What do you do with a thing like this?
>
I'd say take it out the Firewire case, plug it in the system. If the
drive shows up-assuming it's formatted and all that-then you have ruled
out it being bad.
> Tom
> >
>
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