I've just returned a New Motion brand USB2/FW box for exchange under warranty. I have had it with a WD80 drive for about 3 months, and it is just gradually got worse. Often when spinning up it would try to start up 3 or 4 times, but then not actually mount. The retailer indicated it was likely to be a power supply issue in the box. I'm *hoping* the replacement will have the problem solved.
(It also seems to have screwed my drive partition table as when you mount the drive as a standard IDE drive (at least under windows, it was NTFS formatted) it shows as uninitialised. I'm hoping to use Linux fdisk to recover my data. That'll teach me, but it was working nicely for my video editing) Martin -----Original Message----- From: Ross Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 16 June 2003 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Re: Problem (external firewire drive) > >I have an external firewire case with an 80gb 7200rpm drive - my prob >is I can run 20, 40 and 60gig 5400rpm drives no problem, but when I >stick a 40, 60 or 80gb 7200rpm drive in the damn thing works sometimes >if at all, I have tried numerous cables, other drives, operating >systems, platforms etc but I still get the same problem. Sounds to me that the power supply is not up to it. I would expect the faster drives to be thirstier or maybe they are more demanding of their supply limits, maybe the power is out of their spec. Measure the +5 and +12 supplies while they are operating. Good luck Ross -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
