You could also look at a drive dock. Take the drive out of the Freecom case and 
plug it into the dock. I've seen them for around £20 depending on the interface.

John
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Wells 
[[email protected]]
Sent: 23 March 2010 10:01
To: [email protected]
Subject: [sussex_mug] burnt out drive

I have done a stupid thing. I plugged my Freecom external drive that I use for 
Time Machine in using my laptop power cable 19V 3.16A. The right power cable is 
12V 2A.

The Sync button on the drive is glowing weakly but it is not showing up in 
Finder or Disk Utility. It does appear in System Profiler>Firewire as Unknown 
Device.

Ominously there is a slight smell of burning electrics (could be my 
imagination). I have unplugged it!

I am on to Freecom about it but does anyone have experience of this or any 
ideas about fixing it, other than sending it back to Freecom?

It cost £122 a year ago.

Richard

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