I just bought the same case from a local retailer. I plugged the drive in and found the company name, Prolific Technology. I went to their site and searched for the driver. It's a Atapi 4-Bridge device driver. URL: http://tech.prolific.com.tw/visitor/v_filebrw.asp
The site is difficult to navigate, but it's a 2307 device. The driver works on my Pismo. I put a small 2gb drive I pulled in it for testing. The drive was formatted, but I had to reformat it with Drive Setup. Gary K wrote: >Hello, >>From someone on the swap list I bought a small, blue plastic case labelled >"usb hard drive" on the front. On the bottom it says USB Hard Drive, Model >VE-007NHD, a handwritten Serial Number and Made in China. I had also seen >these advertised on ebay and at Computer Geeks. >The case separates in half to put in a hard disk and on the inside it says >USB IDE NHD 20010801. Also sent to me was a TDK CD-R with two usb >extensions on it. >I dragged these two extensions to my system folder and I have the usb mass >storage extension installed. However, the drive does not start up and I was >wondering if I had the correct drivers. USB storage devices may require an >installer that has extensions but also software to format the drive. No >installer disk was sent, so there is no Read-me file or company details. I >think that with USB devices, there are different drivers for Mac OS8.6, Mac >OS 9.x and the seller may be using another system (my emails aren't >answered to check). > >I have put two different powerbook hard drives into the case, but only the >red light shows and no drive mounts on my ibook desktop. I do not hear >either spin up, but when I unplug it there is a very small sound like a >chime. I do not have an external power supply, only the connection to the >usb port on the ibook, but was told it was working with a usb port on his >powerbook. >If someone bought a similar little blue plastic usb hard drive case with no >other brand name, could they please tell me what installer software was on >it or what the Read Me says? >Thanks. > > > > > > -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
