Re: [FCP-L] Glyph Portagig hard drive

That was a trend for awhile. Data and half the power over the firefire port and the other half of the power over the usb connection. That was the only way to get enough juice for 7200 rpm drives without using an external ps.
 Rick Emery
www.rickemery.com

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From: Kerry Soloway <ksoloway@gmail.com>
To: Final Cut Pro L <FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 8:41:10 AM
Subject: [FCP-L] Glyph Portagig hard drive

 
I had a vendor send me a Glyph Portagig hard drive last week with video
files on it. It is buss-powered so he didn't provide me with the optional
external power supply. At the office, on a five-year old G5, I was unable to
read any data, although the System Profiler saw that there was a drive
attached. This was the case with both the FW 800 and USB 2 connections.

So I took the drive home to test it on my recent generation Intel iMac. In
this case, the System Profiler wouldn't see the driver, however, if I hooked
up BOTH the FW 800 and USB 2 ports, it seemed like there was enough power to
access the drive. Although the Profiler didn't see it, I was able to view it
on the Desktop and access the necessary files, to a degree.

It would copy for several minutes and then stop giving me an error message
that I disconnected the hard drive. Then it would reappear and continue
copying. In the end, I chose to transfer a few files, eject and disconnect
the hard drive allowing it to cool down, and then reconnect and repeat. In
the end I was able to retrieve all of my data but I was wondering if anybody
else has had a similar experience.

I assume that there was just not enough power getting to the drive to
operate reliably and I have asked for the power supply in order to test my
theory. Am I missing something?

Kerry
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Kerry Soloway
http://www.Nighting aleEditorial. com
 201-247-4110  201-247-4110
ksoloway@gmail. com

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