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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: NY, NY
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I have one of those 40GB firewire maxtor drives.
it seems to not be "plug and play" at all. to get a mac to recognize the drive, it seems I have to: 1) shut down, 2) turn on the Maxtor drive c3) start up.
sleeping will then make the mounting unreliable unless I 1) put the mac to sleep 2) power down the maxtor...<time elapses> 3) turn on the maxtor 4)wake the Mac.
Feels like a SCSI drive! aack!
same behavior in OS9 and OSX, with a Cube or Pismo attached to the drive.
same behavior if it's the only external peripheral attached, or if it's daisy chained....
anyone know if anything can be done?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: UK
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I am very sorry i cannot be more specific, but a friend also ha "problems" with the maxtor drives, exactly as you are describing - you are not by any means isolated.
Bitch at tech support!
Sorry for not being of more use 
AJ
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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thanks, AJ. i'll take it up with tech support. wish me luck....
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 1999
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Good luck.
You could always use the technique that was described to me to sort out products which are in warrenty, but you want replacing. Get a power supply running at some voltage; cable, narrowed down to one or two strands and making contact with the PCB. If it buggers up, then you might be in luck...
AJ
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: adrift in a sea of decadent luxury and meaningless sex
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I have the same drive with the same problems (though with only one machine, hot-swapping isn't as important to me...), so be sure to give us an update after you talk to tech support
Thanks
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blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. the X makes it sound cool
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Toronto, Canada
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This issue with Maxtor FW drives has been exhaustively treated over at the MacFixit forums (more than 50 posts). Go there and search for the issue, and you'll mind more info than you ever thought you needed.
M.
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