[mrAsh]

Hi,

I have just purchased a brand new 80gig Maxtor HD, and placed it in my External Firewire Case. The external fw-case I have used before, however when I turned the drive on the first time it said it couldn't recognise the volume. So I said, ok new drive, I'll initialize it. It won't recognise it still, and if I unplug it and plug it back it, it doesn't appear, and if I run Drive Setup it doesn't recognise any drives on the system until I remove it! The activity light is active every 15/30secs or so,like its trying to find something... OS9 won't work with it either.

I'm on a PBG4 500, running 10.2.6.

Any Ideas? Would sticking it in a PC and formatting it on that help? I assume the new drive was never formatted to begin with..

Any other software I can use to try and detect it (Drive 10 doesn't) or perhaps formatting it via the Terminal( if so how?)

Cheers

[chris v]

My Maxtor Firewire drive shipped with it's own set of disk utils that I had to use to format it initially.

Do you have any disks that shipped with your Firewire drive? You may need to boot OS 9 to run them, if you do.

CV

[chabig]

The drive shouldn't require special drivers. My recommendation is simply to recheck the connections--all of them, inside the case too!

[bradoesch]

Originally posted by chris v:
My Maxtor Firewire drive shipped with it's own set of disk utils that I had to use to format it initially.

Do you have any disks that shipped with your Firewire drive? You may need to boot OS 9 to run them, if you do.

CV

My Maxtor drive shipped with a CD of utilities, but our entire setup was Maxtor-- drive and case. I think the poster's using a Maxtor drive in a generic case.

[awaspaas]

I had problems formatting a drive in a generic firewire case once, but only the first time! The first time, I had to put it inside one of my computers to format it. After that, I can format it fine in the firewire enclosure. Not sure what the deal is.