Thanks James. I hope you're right about the drive being still alive and OK inside of a dead enclosure. I can start the drive up and hear the disk spinning up and running inside, gently vibrating like normal, so I hope that when the new enclosure comes, the thing will be able to send out the data to the Mac again. I sure would like to salvage those videos that I spent so many hours on, which are now trapped inside the old enclosure awaiting rescue. (I say "old," but that drive is really only about 18 months old. And this isn't the first OWC drive to die on me, but the others were older).
At the moment I'm waiting for that new enclosure <http://tinyurl.com/ y94fw3> plus a new 2TB drive <http://tinyurl.com/ycnmfq7> to arrive from OWC. The new drive will be used to back up the old one, assuming the old drive comes to life again inside the new enclosure. BTW this new enclosure does, I notice, have the Oxford chipset, whatever that is, which I'm glad for since you say it's desirable (but then, the enclosure that died also has the Oxford thing. Maybe they ought to switch to Eton, or some other and better British school). I chose OWC's free shipping option, which can take up to five days, rather than spend another $20 to get the stuff faster, since these two items are costing me quite enough by themselves. But when I do get the old drive into the new enclosure and try it out, I'll report here whether it worked or not. Tom -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
