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My new Mac won't recognise my external drive
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1287290"><p>When you BOOT the iMac, it does restart the USB ports and that signals to the drive to wake up from it's sleep mode. But when you just let the iMac go to its sleep mode, when you WAKE IT UP it doesn't send the USB port any signal, it just expects the device to be there just like when it went to sleep. So the external drive doesn't get a wake up signal and it stays in sleep mode. At least that is what I was able to determine. My drives were from Seagate. They had a software patch that was supposed to fix that problem, but the patch didn't work. Drives are relatively cheap these days, so I went out and got a new drive with Firewire interface.</p><p></p><p>I don't think there are easy ways to bridge USB to Firewire, as MightyGem said, but there may be something. It's worth looking for, I guess, but I suspect that the wake up signal may not be there either, as the interface is entirely different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1287290"] When you BOOT the iMac, it does restart the USB ports and that signals to the drive to wake up from it's sleep mode. But when you just let the iMac go to its sleep mode, when you WAKE IT UP it doesn't send the USB port any signal, it just expects the device to be there just like when it went to sleep. So the external drive doesn't get a wake up signal and it stays in sleep mode. At least that is what I was able to determine. My drives were from Seagate. They had a software patch that was supposed to fix that problem, but the patch didn't work. Drives are relatively cheap these days, so I went out and got a new drive with Firewire interface. I don't think there are easy ways to bridge USB to Firewire, as MightyGem said, but there may be something. It's worth looking for, I guess, but I suspect that the wake up signal may not be there either, as the interface is entirely different. [/QUOTE]
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