External hard drive not mounting

[harveypooka]

I've backed up all my files from a Mac pro manually to an external FireWire LaCie drive. I've completely flattened the Mac Pro.

I needed something from the LaCie drive, so plugged it into my MacBook. The drive won't mount. It spins up, stays on - nothing in the Finder. I had a look into System Info under FireWire and it says "Unable to list FireWire devices" in red.

I plugged the drive back into the Mac Pro (that's about to picked up by a new owner) and the drive won't mount there. In System Info under FireWire it merely gives the max. transfer speeds.

I've got a lot of work on that drive and I can't believe the timing. Anything I can try to resurrect this drive before I weep like a small child?

 

[BlueRevolution]

Does anything show up in Disk Utility?

 

[harveypooka]

Does anything show up in Disk Utility?

Not a thing. But I fixed it! I took out the hard drive and put it in a different chassis. It looks like the FireWire interface is shot.

Thank GOD!

 

[BlueRevolution]

Yeah, that's the diagnosis I was leaning towards as well.