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Re: Startech enclosure

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: Startech enclosure
Date	2011-08-04 12:28 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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In article <1k5hqlx.o5tczn3rhyyeN%dcohenspam@talktalk.net>, Daniel
Cohen <dcohenspam@talktalk.net> wrote:

> I just bought a Hitachi 2 TB drive which I had planned to put into a
> Startech USB/Firewire enclosure.
> 
> I was surprised to find it worked ok on a PC, and Firewire was ok on my
> Mac. But with the USB connection my Mac was not even aware there was a
> drive connected.
> 
> This is on an iMac running 10.6.8, and occurred with several cables and
> ports, though another USB drive was working fine.
> 
> I am wondering if this is a known problem, and if there is anything I
> can try. Startech just said it ought to work.

it should work, although some enclosures may have issues with booting
(which isn't the issue here). return it.

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Startech enclosure dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2011-08-04 19:44 +0100
  Re: Startech enclosure nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-04 12:28 -0700
  Re: Startech enclosure David Stone <no.email@domain.invalid> - 2011-08-04 15:29 -0400
    Re: Startech enclosure nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-04 12:37 -0700
      Re: Startech enclosure dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2011-08-05 07:04 +0100
    Re: Startech enclosure dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2011-08-05 17:02 +1200

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