On Nov 27, 2010, at 12:00 AM, Tom wrote: > Thanks Clark & Kris. You guys are very kind to take the time to help > me out like this, and I appreciate it. > > Well, this external hard drive has three interfaces: FW400, FW800, and > USB, and I've tried connecting the drive to the Mac with each one of > these cables, and in all three cases nothing appeared on the desktop. > (On each try, I powered down both the Mac and the external drive, > connected the cable, and restarted). > > > > > Meanwhile, do you think should I suspend further recovery attempts > until DW arrives?
I don't think you'll have any luck with DW, not with the current enclosure at least. It's pretty clear the FW/USB - SATA interface is the problem. DW isn't going to help with that. Once you put this drive in another enclosure you may need DW at that point. It's possible the failing interface munged data being written to the drive. My daughter's laptop had that happen when the IDE interface started failing. You won't know until you can access the drive. Hopefully the drive will be okay and you won't need DW. I would wait till you get a new enclosure (or try the internal interface). Then see if it's okay, it likely will be okay. Try copying the entire drive over to one of your new externals. I believe you want to do that anyway. Doing the copy will show up any disk errors. And you can work on / check the contents of the copy rather than working on the original. If everything is checks out okay you can be confident the drive is okay and the problem was just in the interface. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
