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Use firewire cdr as a firewire harddisk
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Hi,
I've got this sony crx140ei external cd-writer. I don't use it anymore and I exchanged the internal writer with a hard disk for backup purpose. But the hard drive isn't recognized by my mac. System profile shows a Lacie 1394-CDrom drive. I've tried it in master and slave setup but no luck. I assumed the case would work as a firewire enclosure. Any ideas or isn't this going to work.
btw I'm using osx 10.4 on a PM G4 with an fastmac upgrade
tia
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Hey that's weird. I swapped out a cd-rw drive from a lacie case and put in a dvd drive. It had some issues burning DVDs. I wonder if our problems are related. There might be something built in to the firmware of the case, that's telling the OS "Hey, I'm a CD drive".
Okay, I've plugged in my drive, and it shows up the same. Under system profiler - firewire - LaCie 1394-CDROM Drive.
What is Disk Utility showing? Maybe it just needs a format. Try some other drives and see what happens.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Iowa State Univesity
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I have a Lite-On CD-RW case that I put hard drives into. System profiler sees it as a CD-RW but the firewire HD icon shows up on the desktop and I can treat it just like a HD, but my roommate's PC only sees it as a CD drive.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Netherlands
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I swap external drives all the time, I have no issues, except with cheaper enclosures. Those just fail continously.
I now work with internal drives. Much faster.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
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I've had no problems using CD cases to load hard-drives. Actually one of the oldest USB CD burners out there (I forget the brand... but it was 2x burn...) Works great, just slower (USB 1.0) connection. I just use it to check drives for pure functionality (Does it work? Or not.)
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yep.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: UK
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Lacie firmware prevents use of other drives in their cases. Some others do this too. EZQuest being another I know of. Possible LaCie even flash the drives themselves.
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