Firewire enclosure doesn't work in 3.0.1 [kinda solved]

[Michael George]

On Jan 15, 2004, at 4:14 PM, Gavin Hemphill wrote:
> In general firewire cables are NOT very robust.  You have to be really 
> careful plugging them in to get them truly squared up with the socket. 
> I've thrown away at least 6 now.  My general response when I see 
> errors is to check the socket (the contacts on the central male piece 
> shouldn't be sticking up too much) and then try a known good cable - 
> if the new cable works I toss the one that didn't.

Thanks for the info.  I'll keep that in mind.  At least I know now that 
it's not the enclosure or the drive...

> Michael George wrote:
>> On Jan 14, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Gavin Hemphill wrote:
>> I solved the issue, but I'm still not sure what you think...
>> So, now my question is "How much variation is there in Firewire 
>> cables?"  IOW, are the ones that don't work cheap cables but the one 
>> that works is a better quality one?  Or is there something more 
>> subtle going on?

-Michael