I have been using an 80gig Firewire external HD I purchased from Other World Computing for about 7 years. It's been a great piece of hardware. Lately, however, the HD icon doesn't want to show up on my desktop #1. I've changed firewire cords, and I've plugged the firewire cord into different female plug-ins, but sometimes the icon shows up and sometimes it does not, and sometimes it just disappears.
The really odd thing is, if I connect two DDR G4 computers together via a firewire cord, and the HD is plugged into #2, the HD icon will show up on #1, but not on #2. How can this happen??
That being said, when do I know an external HD is on it's way out? All the files have been transfered just in case. Is it possible to replace a HD reusing the outer case?
Both computers are using Panther, BTW.
Thanks for reading, seems I never run out of questions.
Patt
The really odd thing is, if I connect two DDR G4 computers together via a firewire cord, and the HD is plugged into #2, the HD icon will show up on #1, but not on #2. How can this happen??
That being said, when do I know an external HD is on it's way out? All the files have been transfered just in case. Is it possible to replace a HD reusing the outer case?
Both computers are using Panther, BTW.
Thanks for reading, seems I never run out of questions.
Patt