js wrote:
I bought a 3.5" external enclosure for my 80G Hitachi drive. ...snip... My mac sees and works with USB only, not USB2 or Firewire. Is there a generic driver that I can download from somewhere to make it FW or USB2 compatible?
Bruce Johnson wrote:
Oxford 911 chipsets don't need drivers, so the firewire should work. It may be a master/slave issue. Try setting the jumper to master if it's set to nothing, cable select or slave, or nothing if it's currently set to master.
Bruce,
I know it sounds like the answer should be obvious, but it is not to me... so here goes: do laptop drives also have master/slave jumpers?
A year or so ago, I bought an external USB/Firewire box from OWC to house a laptop drive, from a machine we upgraded. I was never able to get it to be recognized via Firewire. It works flawlessly via USB. I have tried with with a number of systems running various Mac OSs, and none of them see it vial FW. It does have the Oxford 911 chipset. Plugging an AC adapter in to the drive does not help either.
Nancy
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