On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:50 AM, John Carmonne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I wonder what may be wrong here i have an extenal drive WD 1TB drive and
> I have a Firm Tek card in a G4 MDD Dual 1.25 and a card in a PM G5 Dual  2.7
> I can't get the drive to mount on either machine. It mounts fine with the USB 
> and
> FW 800 ports. Firmware doesn't seem to be an issue. Is there a possibility of 
> a bad drive?

If the drive were bad it would not be usable with USB and FW.

I would suspect either a bad cable or a bad/loose cable connection to
the either the drive or the eSATA port.

Are you using an internal SATA cable or eSATA? Did you reboot the
machine after attaching the drive?

-irrational john

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