External harddrive will not work through Firewire/IEE 1394
Hi there
I have an external harddrive enclosure containing a 200 GB Maxtor drive.
But I simply cannot get it to work using Firewire aka IEEE 1394.
When I hook it up absolutely nothing happens. No beeps, no sounds, no popups. Just nothing.
What can be wrong?
I have tried using 5-6 different FW cables and I have tested it on two machines. I have even tried using an identical harddrive enclosure but that didn't make any difference.
How can I get it to work?
My Firewire cannot be broken on to seperate machines?
Unfortunately I do not have any other devices that use firewire.
This means that I can only test using the harddrive enclosure.
I have an external harddrive enclosure containing a 200 GB Maxtor drive.
But I simply cannot get it to work using Firewire aka IEEE 1394.
When I hook it up absolutely nothing happens. No beeps, no sounds, no popups. Just nothing.
What can be wrong?
I have tried using 5-6 different FW cables and I have tested it on two machines. I have even tried using an identical harddrive enclosure but that didn't make any difference.
How can I get it to work?
My Firewire cannot be broken on to seperate machines?
Unfortunately I do not have any other devices that use firewire.
This means that I can only test using the harddrive enclosure.
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Is the 200GB drive in question a new acquisition? Does your enclosure still work with older drives?
I got it last christmas that means that it is 5-6 months old.
The drive is a reasonably new Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200 GB ATA 133.
I must admit, that I have not tested the enclosure with another drive.
But do note that everything works fine using USB 2.0
I have also tried using an enclosure borrowed from my dad, it is identical but contains another disc. Cannot remember the size though?
But it behaved in a smilar fashion, everything worked fine when using USB, and nothing when using FireWire. Very odd