Thunderbolt

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  1. Oldmanmac, Jan 26, 2016

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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?
     
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  2. carestudio, Jan 26, 2016

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    are you using Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter?
     
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  3. ColdCase, Jan 28, 2016

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    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.
     
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  4. Oldmanmac, Jan 28, 2016

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    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.
     
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  5. carestudio, Jan 29, 2016

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    did you try different thunderbolt cable? despite that you are using OWC's thunderbolt drive, caldigit has some good generic troubleshooting steps for Thunderbolt devices

    http://www.caldigit.com/KB/index.asp?KBID=151

    you may try update OS, cables.
     
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  6. Oldmanmac, Mar 1, 2016

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    Yes I did try 2 different cables. Ended up using FW800 (through an adapter>)
     
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  7. MCAsan, Mar 1, 2016

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    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.
     
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  8. Oldmanmac, Mar 1, 2016

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    You are correct in that my current enclosures are FW. As I replace them I will chose then.
     
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  9. matreya, Mar 1, 2016

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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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