Hi Chris thanks for the info. Its just one of those problems, it could be my mac, the cable or the external drive itself. I was planning to buy a new external thunderbolt drive because mine is making funny noises, but if my port is no good... Jeff
On 9/8/14, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd start with System Information app in your Utilities folder. Launch > that and then find the System Report button and action that. In the > System Report there are a couple sections, one called Hardware and under > Hardware is Thunderbolt. Select that, stop interacting and then VO-right > twice to get to the details about the Thunderbolt Bus. In there under > Port should be info about whatever devices it found. I don't have any so > mine just says "No device connected". If yours says the same and the > device IS connected then there is some kind of hardware issue which no > amount of software twiddling is going to resolve. > > CB > > On 9/8/14, 3:43 PM, jeff `greene wrote: >> Hi listers, I have a 2012 MBP I bought on ebay. I have a Lacie >> external hard drive that will connect with thunderbolt or usb. It >> doesn't show up on the finder using thunderbolt. Is there any test on >> the mac to determine if the problem is with my mac or with the >> external drive? >> Thanks, Jeff >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
