Re: External drive not showing up on Pismo

2003-01-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
Obi-Wan wrote: It's not your Pismo. There is no incompatibility with a drive in an enclosure through a FW bridge. Just plug the drive in to the AC. Plug the FW cable into the Pismo, and open Drive setup and format the drive. IT should work fine. The Jumper in all FW drives should be set

Re: External drive not showing up on Pismo

2003-01-16 Thread Obi-Wan
On 1/16/03 9:43 AM, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I had a problem with an external FW drive in a Rev1 BW; it wouldn't work until I upgraded the BW to OSX (which kinda sucked rocks, since the reason I was attaching it was to back the system up before upgrading it to

External drive not showing up on Pismo

2003-01-15 Thread Ed Zelinsky
Just purchased a Maxtor 80GB/7200rpm external drive to hook up via Firewire to my Pismo (OS 9.2). Tried different start up combinations but I can't see an icon any where... the drive sounds great. Is the rpm rate too much for this PB? Wah! I need it! ez -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: External drive not showing up on Pismo

2003-01-15 Thread Luca Rescigno
Just purchased a Maxtor 80GB/7200rpm external drive to hook up via Firewire to my Pismo (OS 9.2). Tried different start up combinations but I can't see an icon any where... the drive sounds great. Is the rpm rate too much for this PB? Wah! I need it! ez Is it a fully enclosed

Re: External drive not showing up on Pismo

2003-01-15 Thread Ed Zelinsky
on 1/15/03 6:35 AM, Luca Rescigno at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it a fully enclosed external drive, or is it a drive you bought yourself plus an enclosure? The invoice describes it as a compact external case WITH the Maxtor HDD. I don't know how to change the jumper setting... The mini

Re: External drive not showing up on Pismo

2003-01-15 Thread Luca Rescigno
The invoice describes it as a compact external case WITH the Maxtor HDD. I don't know how to change the jumper setting... The mini booklet that came with it just assumed that it would appear on a mac no problem. Thanks Luca. Hmm, I'm not sure if I am enough of an authority on this to be

Re: External drive not showing up on Pismo

2003-01-15 Thread Ed Zelinsky
on 1/15/03 7:11 AM, Luca Rescigno at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The invoice describes it as a compact external case WITH the Maxtor HDD. I don't know how to change the jumper setting... The mini booklet that came with it just assumed that it would appear on a mac no problem. Thanks Luca.

Re: External drive not showing up on Pismo

2003-01-15 Thread Luca Rescigno
Thanks very much- I can work with that info... So, it's not some kind of pismo incompatibility issue, or rpm speed issue then? Ed I don't know if it's incompatible... it's possible but it doesn't seem likely. However, I am sure it's not too high RPMs for your Pismo, that's not an

Re: External drive not showing up on Pismo

2003-01-15 Thread Ed Zelinsky
on 1/15/03 7:21 AM, Luca Rescigno at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks very much- I can work with that info... So, it's not some kind of pismo incompatibility issue, or rpm speed issue then? Ed I don't know if it's incompatible... it's possible but it doesn't seem likely. However, I

Re: External drive not showing up on Pismo

2003-01-15 Thread Ed Zelinsky
on 1/15/03 8:50 AM, Joe Ellis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Ed Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 8:29 AM Subject: Re: External drive not showing up on Pismo on 1/15/03 7:21 AM, Luca Rescigno