Re: format a Hitachi drive in a firewire case on a Pismo?

2006-01-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 29/01/06 08:17, kaldav at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello,
 I have bought a new Hitachi drive for my Pismo (listed as compatible
 on OWC) and put it in an external Sarotech firewire case. However, it
 doesn't show up with Disk Utility in OSX10.3.9.
 
 Then I re-started from a 10.3.2 installer CD, twice by holding down
 the C key, and it is not seen with Disk Utility.
 
 I also re-started in OS9.22 and Drive SetUp did not see it to format it.
 
 Is there a trick to getting this drive to appear on the desktop to format it?

I don't think the problem is with the drive. I would think that the problem
is with the Firewire enclosure. Does that enclosure need external power? I
have one that won't work if not connected to an external source of power.

-Laurent.
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Re: format a Hitachi drive in a firewire case on a Pismo?

2006-01-29 Thread Fabian Fang

On Jan 29, 2006, at 5:17 AM, kaldav wrote:

I have bought a new Hitachi drive for my Pismo (listed as  
compatible on OWC) and put it in an external Sarotech firewire  
case. However, it doesn't show up with Disk Utility in OSX10.3.9.


Then I re-started from a 10.3.2 installer CD, twice by holding down  
the C key, and it is not seen with Disk Utility.


I also re-started in OS9.22 and Drive SetUp did not see it to  
format it.


Is there a trick to getting this drive to appear on the desktop to  
format it?


I believe that Sarotech FireWire enclosures use Oxford 911 or 912  
chipsets.  You may have to install the Oxford Java Utility for your  
drive to show up.  If so, please write me offlist for specific  
procedure.


Fabian


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Re: format a Hitachi drive in a firewire case on a Pismo?

2006-01-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 29/01/06 12:30, Fabian Fang at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Jan 29, 2006, at 5:17 AM, kaldav wrote:
 
 I have bought a new Hitachi drive for my Pismo (listed as
 compatible on OWC) and put it in an external Sarotech firewire
 case. However, it doesn't show up with Disk Utility in OSX10.3.9.
 
 Then I re-started from a 10.3.2 installer CD, twice by holding down
 the C key, and it is not seen with Disk Utility.
 
 I also re-started in OS9.22 and Drive SetUp did not see it to
 format it.
 
 Is there a trick to getting this drive to appear on the desktop to
 format it?
 
 I believe that Sarotech FireWire enclosures use Oxford 911 or 912
 chipsets.  You may have to install the Oxford Java Utility for your
 drive to show up.  If so, please write me offlist for specific
 procedure.

Did you check that the cable is good? I thought that Oxford chipsets were
pretty much compatible with Mac OS X...

-Laurent.
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