FireWire Drive: She’s DEAD Jim.

[Ed Dooley]

Kevin,
TechToolPro is useful, and it may help you. But it may not be the problem. I’ve had the same thing happen with
a couple of FW drives; in one case the drive enclosure is a combo FW800/USB2 case. When it wouldn’t mount as FW800,
I could get it to mount as USB2. If I did that and then ejected it, it would then mount as FW800. It was the board inside
the enclosure at fault. With the other case I could wiggle the FW cable. It would mount when it was twisted in a certain way. If
I stood the case up on end with pressure maintained on the cable, it would stay mounted. In both cases the drives themselves were fine.
If you can get your hands on another case you can see if that’s it.
HTH,
Ed

[Steven Gonzales]

If you’re not under warranty, I’d pull the drive out to see if it’s the drive or the firewire bridge (or maybe power supply) that’s dead.

Is it a single drive or a raided pair? I’m not sure how to test the raided pair, but a single is rather easy to check.

I have a wiebetech firewire TrayDock and bought a drive tray for IDE and a drive tray for SATA, so I can get at either type of bare drive.

An sata you could pop inside the G5. Perhaps you have an old G4 machine to slap the drive into if its IDE, to see if it shows up.

[Kevin Monahan]

JIm,
How did you know I was calling you when I said, “She’s DEAD Jim.”
Hilarious!

Anyway, YES, I just happen to have a spare USB2 enclosure. I’ll pop the drive into that and see “what up”.

Steven,
Thanks for the reply.

[Steven Gonzales] “If you’re not under warranty, I’d pull the drive out to see if it’s the drive or the firewire bridge (or maybe power supply) that’s dead.

Is it a single drive or a raided pair? I’m not sure how to test the raided pair, but a single is rather easy to check.

I have a wiebetech firewire TrayDock and bought a drive tray for IDE and a drive tray for SATA, so I can get at either type of bare drive.

An sata you could pop inside the G5. Perhaps you have an old G4 machine to slap the drive into if its IDE, to see if it shows up.”

I’m fairly certain that the drive is fine, but the header file to make it mount seems to constantly get corrupted. So something is rotten in Denmark.

This is a single Hitachi Deskstar 120 GB in a fairly cheapo enclosure that’s work OK for a long time. It ABSOLUTELY could be the case or something rotten in Denmark – like an OS thing.

Unfortunately, all I have is TiBooks today.

Thanks for your words of advice. I’ll post back later with a solution.

Kevin Monahan
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[Peter Wiggins]

Kevin

Have you checked your Dilithium Crystals? 🙂

Peter

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[Dan Riley]

You’ve probably already tried this, but if one of my firewire drives
doesn’t mount at startup, I open disk utility, highlight the drive and
hit the mount button. Usually works.

I only use Firewire drives for backup and they are very useful for
putting an entire offline and online project on one 500 or 750 gig drive.

Dan

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Peter Wiggins] “Have you checked your Dilithium Crystals? :)”

I think Kevin just needs to reverse polarity…

Arnie
Now in preproduction: Peristroika (Cosmological Congress), a film by Slava Tsukerman
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[Debe]

[Arniepix] “I think Kevin just needs to reverse polarity…”

…of the flux capacitor or the neutron flow?

debe

[Arnie Schlissel]

[debe] “…of the flux capacitor or the neutron flow?”

I believe he has to reverse polarity on the flux capacitor so that he can use it to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. Crap! These damn tribbles are eating all of my quadro-triticalli!

Arnie
Now in preproduction: Peristroika (Cosmological Congress), a film by Slava Tsukerman
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[Kevin Monahan]

That’s the trouble with Tribbles! Now where’s that USB enclosure?

Kevin Monahan
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[Debe]

[Kevin Monahan] “Now where’s that USB enclosure?”

Didja already pack it, Kevin?

debe