Hello.
Had a disconcerting thing happen the other day, and I was hoping someone else had seen something like this.
I was using my OWC Mercury (Oxford 911/Maxtor 60G) 1394 drive on my B&W G3 work computer. My coworker brought over his VST drive (don't know the specs) to get some files. When he plugged in the VST, we smelled the acrid smell of burning components. The VST lit up and spun, but did not mount. After that, neither would the OWC drive. Pulled the 1394 transciver board from the G3, dismantled it and found a burnt SMT capacitor. Went and stole the transceiver out of a different B&W G3 (hopefully the user won' t notice until the new parts arrive!). Tried my OWC drive and pfft! Tried the VST again and pfft! The computer hung on restart, even with no drive attached to the cable. Here's the tricky part: as soon as I disconnected the 1394 cable from the back of the computer (even though there was no device on the other end) the computer un-hung and booted normally. Both transceivers were fried, as was the 1394 bridge board in the OWC case: big burn hole in the smaller IC. Didn't crack the VST to check, but I assume the bridge in that is toasted also. Drive mechanism and data were ok.
Any ideas?
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