Hard Drive enclosure

[smolz]

How do I tell in OS X whether or not it sees a hard rive enclosure? I have put in the hard drive, plugged in the cable(power & usb). I dont see anything. I hear the drive spin up, but nothing on the desktop or disk utility.

It is a Maxtor 250 that I am trying to get to work. I put a 20gig and it seems to come right up

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Open "System Profiler" in the Utilities folder, or, select "About This Mac" from the Apple menu, then click the "More Info..." button in the window that appears.

Once there, click on either "USB" in the left-hand side list and see if anything resembling your enclosure shows up. That'll tell ya if Mac OS X can "see" the enclosure, but it won't tell you if it will work or not.

Did you double-check the jumper settings on the 250GB? Perhaps jumpering it as "Cable Select" instead of "Master" or vice-versa would work -- does the enclosure manual specify what jumper settings to use?

[smolz]

if it is plugged in when I go there, i just get a spinning wheel until I unplug the box. I am wondering if maybe that it wont support the 250? I cant find any info on whether or not it does, it is a rosewill rx32?????

[Viro]

What format is the filesystem on the 250 GB drive?

[smolz]

it is ntfs. But if everything was working I would at least see the partition in the disk utility

[Viro]

If it can't mount the partition, it won't show anything in disk utility, since it can't read from the drive. Or more likely, it knows about the partition, is trying to mount it but hanging there.

No idea how to solve it though.

[bobw]

Could be a bad enclousure, bad drive, or the enclosure doesn't support drives over 127GB. If you have a smaller drive you can put in it, give that a try.

[smolz]

Bought another enclosure that explicitly said "SUPPORTS UP TO 350GB". Popped in my 250 and everything fired up immediately. thanks for the help!!!!