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I am perplexed by this issue. I just got a USB External Hard Drive enclosure (MacAlly Model CA-268F2 Firewire/USB2.0 combo). I placed a 3.2GB drive taken out of a Rev A iBook which now has a 12.1GB hard drive installed in it.

I attempted to connect this drive to the Rev A iBook via USB (after installing all drivers). It does not mount on the iBook under 10.1.5 or 9.2.2

I then installed the driver and attached the external drive to a Rev D 350mhz USB only iMac via the USB port. It mounted in 9.2.2 without a problem. I then decided to install X.1.0 on the iMac. After doing this, I installed the driver and again the drive mounted without a problem.

I then decided to try a trick. I booted both Systems in to OS X. I copied the System Folder from the iMac to the iBook, and the booted the iBook with the newly copied OS 9.2.2 folder (in case some extensions/CPs on the iBook prevented the drive from mounting). Again the drive did not mount.

I also tested the USB port on the iBook. It works fine with all my other USB devices, including a Que! QPS 4x4x8 CD-RW drive (I burned 4 CD's today).

I don't understand why it will mount on the iMac, but not on the iBook. Admittedly I know nothing about master/slave on hard drives, so I am wondering if this may have something to do with it. However, it still seems odd that the iMac can mount the drive and the iBook cannot.


Here are the System Specs:

iBook - Rev A, 300Mhz, 288MB Ram, 12.1GB Maxstore HD, Airport card, OS 9.2.2, OS 10.1.5

iMac - Rev D, 350Mhz, 256MB Ram, 6.4GB HD (whatever came installed on the machine), Airport card, OS 9.2.2, OS 10.1.0

Hard Drive - 3.2GB IBM Travelstar. Removed from the aformentioned iBook, housed in a MacAlly Firewire/USB2.0 HD Model # CA-268F2

Thank you for any/all help.

Peace,

O
B unce!

[himself]

is the drive bus powered, or is it plugged in to AC power?

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Originally posted by himself:
is the drive bus powered, or is it plugged in to AC power?

It is bus powered. It works fine on the iMac without any other power source.It also works on the iMac when I connect it through a 4 port USB Hub (it does not work when I connect it to the other end of the keyboard). It does not work on the iBook at all, hub or no hub. It does have an external power supply, which I thougt was only needed for firewire connection...but I just tried it a few seconds ago (on the iBook) and this happened:


Nothing mounted, but I was not able to type this message (Using Mozilla 1.1 on OX 10.1.5). When I disconnected the USB cable from the iBook I got a message that I improperly disconnected the storage device and next time should eject it. So I plugged the device in to make sure I didn't miss it being mounted. Again, nothing mounted, I wentto the "Computer" screen from the Finder, and the only Disk was the internal HD, BUT, when I disconnected it, I got the same message again.

I figure this is better than it being completely ignored, which is what happened when it was not plugged in, but it is still not as good as haveing it mount and be able to be used.

Confused? Definitely.

Help? Please.

Peace,

O
B unce!