Ok I have a separate external enclosure which only offers usb and for one drive only. My iMac sees both drives when i put them one at a time in there. I have formatted them to extended journaled. I place both in this new enclosure since I need firewire 800 and 4tb. It doesn't mount or show up in disk utility. What am I doing wrong. I have tried the fw 800, fw400 and usb on this drive enclosure. I have powered off the unit and restarted my mac and still nothing. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help.
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OWC Mecury Elite-AL Pro 2x 2tb with iMac Problem
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http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/MirrorRAID/
is this your model? or this one
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/PerformanceRAID
if you have either one you must use identical hdds
They are both this drive
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western...50518&skuId=9234465&st=green drives&cp=1&lp=9
The enclosure looks like those, but the part number I think is wrong. The one I bought wasn't for mirroring just a hdd bay. tThe part number on my receipt is OWCMEFW936AL2.
Anyways when I was on the live chat thinking about ordering it in April.
I told the guy I need a bay I could put two drives in, have fw 800 and at least 4tb of storage for movies pics files and stuff. I didn't need redundancy. So i bought this one with the exact same drives anyway, but nothing. He did say that the max I could put in it would be 2x 2tb.
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Tried it said mine isn't compatible. Waiting to hear back from their support email.