Hi Steve
You will get power through the FireWire port, hence the glowing LED.
However, it is HIGHLY unrecommended to run anything other than low-power
devices such as 2.5 drives off the FireWire port. Simply devices such
as 3.5 drivers or CD-ROM burners when in operation will draw power in
excess of the FireWire spec. This can result in shutting down the
FireWire bus on your Mac which requires a hardware reset. Not pretty.
I recently purchased a firewire enclosure for an IBM deskstar drive.
This new enclosure sas the Oxford 911 chipset and is a lot smaller, and
so cool.
I turned off the power switch to the drive, pulled the power cable out,
and turned the power switch on.
And you guessed it the drive did NOT spin up, but the LED came on, and
stayed on for around 30 seconds.
So it looks like the capacitors in the circuit board can hold enough
charge to power the LED for a short period of time.
Which made me think it was already plugged into a power supply.
Steve Davies
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