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Oldmanmac

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Mar 31, 2012
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I am wondering if this is possible.....

I had a problem with 2 OWC FW drives not working on my 2011 iMac. After going round n' round with OWC for replacement (they were new) I decided to give Apple a shout. (All my other FW drives worked fine, just not the OWC).

I showed them the problem. Since I still had AC and they couldn't find anything, they replaced the logic board. Same outcome, I left it alone and trashed the OWC's, as they would only do USB2.

That said to ask this. Later I tried a Thunderbolt drive and it didn't work for me. Is it realistic that maybe the port was dead or just an incompatible drive?
 
Its possible the cable is bad. If you are using one cable for the OWC drives and another for the other drives I would suspect the cable. I've used OWC FW drives for years without issue, except for a bad cable now and again.
 
Well, trying tomove everything to the new iMac, the TB port on the original iMac still didn't work. So, I went from the new iMac's TB to the FW on the old iMac.
 
Why use FW at all? Drives do SATA 1/2/3, not FW or USB. It is the enclosure that does the translation between SATA and FW or USB or TB. So move the drives to USB 3 enclosures and hook them to a USB 3 hub.
 
Oldmanmac said:
You are correct in that my current enclosures are FW. As I replace them I will chose then.
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What MCASan was suggesting is that you could get new enclosures for the drives that dont work via Firewire and connect them via USB3...
 
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