Firewire horrors: update

2006-01-24 Thread Bruce Ryan
Hi Listas tried putting one of the recalcitrant disks inside the Pismo: still no joy (See http://sites.ecosse.net/mycelium/forothers/ forothersMain.html#update) So the options seem to be: 1: give up on Firewire and find a USB2 PC card that works in the Pismo, then use the 40GB HD in the

Firewire horrors: update

2006-01-24 Thread Bruce Ryan
Hi Listas tried putting one of the recalcitrant disks inside the Pismo: still no joy (See http://sites.ecosse.net/mycelium/forothers/ forothersMain.html#update) So the options seem to be: 1: give up on Firewire and find a USB2 PC card that works in the Pismo, then use the 40GB HD in the

Re: Firewire horrors: update

2006-01-24 Thread Brian Steere
Bruce Ryan said recently: Hi Listas tried putting one of the recalcitrant disks inside the Pismo: still no joy (See http://sites.ecosse.net/mycelium/forothers/ forothersMain.html#update) So the options seem to be: 1: give up on Firewire and find a USB2 PC card that works in the Pismo,

Re: firewire horrors

2006-01-20 Thread Bruce Ryan
Dear G-bookers First, sorry to all (especially Howard) who got eye-strain from my colour-scheme In reply to Brian: Are the external cases FW 400 or 800? 400 Have you tried a FW card in the PCMCIA slot? not yet - can anyone lend/sell me one? In reply to John setting 30GB as slave (it

Re: firewire horrors

2006-01-20 Thread Howard Katz
On 1/20/06, Bruce Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear G-bookers First, sorry to all (especially Howard) who got eye-strain from my colour-scheme I refuse to admit that I'm getting too old to make out material on a website. :) I know this is a longshot--does the drive do what you want on

Re: firewire horrors

2006-01-20 Thread Harry Corsover
I missed the beginning of this thread, but not all Firewire drives are bootable. I had to return two new ones to IOGear because they weren't bootable, but others are. At first they gave me a hard time since they didn't advertise the drives as bootable, but I prevailed eventually and they

Firewire horrors

2006-01-19 Thread Bruce Ryan
HI folks there's a Bruce-and-his-Pismo shaggy dog story at http:// sites.ecosse.net/mycelium/forothers/forothers.html. I thought it was too long for the lists. If you've read it • Gbookers: what can I do to get at least one of the external drives, when in the new firewire case, mounting

Re: Firewire horrors

2006-01-19 Thread Howard Katz
One request, please, Bruce: Light purple text on a light orange background is extremely hard to read. :) How about Navy if you don't want black text? :) LaterHoward -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com |

Re: Firewire horrors

2006-01-19 Thread John Siple
Bruce, Try altering the jumpers on the drives. If you can't get them to talk jumpering them to Master, try cable select. or vice versa. I rather doubt setting any of the drives to Slave will help, but you could try that too. John - On Jan 19,