depends on the design of the interior (fuse protected , if firewire
bus powers the firewire/ide bridge but not the drive or the brick
powers both etc) but in all probability you have possibly damaged the
firewire bridge in the external case and the drive it's self
_should_ be OK.
however (and less likely) if you have blown the controller board on
the disk recovery is dependant on finding an identical model drive
and delicate surgery to swap it.
best diagnosis tool is a second firewire case or a tower unit with a
spare IDE bus/channel.
see if the firewire bridge controller is at least responding by
powering it up and going in to "about this mac" then "more info..."
then see if it is detected in the firewire device list (though I
have had a bridge show up but still not talk to the fully functional
drive on the other side of the bridge)
In joining in with the silly season spirit I have managed to damage an
External 120GB Firewire Drive, by plugging in a 16V power brick
instead of it's usual 12V one. (In my defence they do look
identical!)
With the proper 12V power brick plugged in, I get a red light warning
but I am unable to mount the drive on the iBook desktop. When I
'hotplug' the firewire cable into the iBook the drives light changes
to purple/blue.
Any ideas on how I can determine if there is any data still on the
drive? What is the likelihood of recovering any data after such a
power surge?
Any tips welcome.
Thanks,
Paul
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