Oh, missed that. Since it sees the SBP device, but can't initialize it,
maybe your cable is bad?
On Apr 7, 2011 11:50 AM, "Jonathan Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes. I did mention the drive had its own external power source.
>
> On Apr 7, 2011 12:27 PM, "Alex Austin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I assume the drive is otherwise powered? 4-pin 1394 is data only and has
> no
>> power lines.
>>
>> - Alex
>> --
>> It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of
>> yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Kelly <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone successfully connected an external Firewire hard drive (with
>>> it's own external power supply) to the 4-pin (i.Link) firewire (IEEE
> 1394a)
>>> interface found on some Thinkpads? I have both a T61 and an X31 that
have
>>> this interface, and I'd prefer to use it over USB if I can.
>>>
>>> What I'm seeing when I connect the drive is the drive listed in device
>>> manager with the yellow exclamation point and the entry states:
>>> "OEM OEM ATA Device 00 IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device"
>>>
>>> Tried connecting prior to boot up, in case it was an AHCI/Compatability
>>> mode thing w/ the SATA interface (seemed unlikely since the SATA nature
> of
>>> the drive is I believe masked by the Firewire interface) - but no luck.
>>> Also tried disabling the 1394 Net Adapter as per some Internet posts.
>>> Again, no luck.
>>>
>>> -Jonathan
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