Firewire drive not responding

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Gary Goodman

I have a Sony notebook running W98 SE. An external CD-RW is
plugged into the iLink (Firewire/IEEE 1394) port. From there I
have an external harddrive. The harddrive doesn't show in "My
Computer" but if I turn it off, I get an error message about
unplugging it without using the control panel to shut down the
connection.

I have two drive and have switched the cables, but nothing is
making the drive accessible.

How can the drive not be accessible even when W98 is aware of the
drive?

I've ripped many CDs onto the external drive and really don't
have the time to do it again.


Thanks for any help.

Gary
 
I have a Sony notebook running W98 SE. An external CD-RW is
plugged into the iLink (Firewire/IEEE 1394) port. From there I
have an external harddrive. The harddrive doesn't show in "My
Computer" but if I turn it off, I get an error message about
unplugging it without using the control panel to shut down the
connection.
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I have two drive and have switched the cables,
but nothing is making the drive accessible.
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Even just with just the hard drive plugged in, no CDRW ?
How can the drive not be accessible
even when W98 is aware of the drive?
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Likely its aware of the firewire device, but it cant
see the hard drive on that properly for some reason.
I've ripped many CDs onto the external drive
and really don't have the time to do it again.
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It may be possible to take the hard drive out of
the firewire enclosure and read the data off it on
a normal PC. That may well void the warranty.

The drive might have just died tho. They can
get stinking hot in those external enclosures.
 
Even just with just the hard drive plugged in, no CDRW ?


Likely its aware of the firewire device, but it cant
see the hard drive on that properly for some reason.


It may be possible to take the hard drive out of
the firewire enclosure and read the data off it on
a normal PC. That may well void the warranty.

The drive might have just died tho. They can
get stinking hot in those external enclosures.
Click to expand...
The CD-RW drive is recognized. Both the old HD and the new one
are ignored. The new drive is encased at the factory, I don't
know if I can get the case open. The old one is a Western Digital
in a separate enclosure.

When I got the first drive, I had to have Comp USA get the thing
up and running.

What's strange is that the new drive started fine, but after a
day or so, it is no longer recognized.

Gary
 
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