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<blockquote data-quote="JMR" data-source="post: 417630" data-attributes="member: 32871"><p>I recently purchased 2 identical Welland 3.5 External hard Disk Enclosures.</p><p>Both have 250 GB Seagate Barracuda Ultra ATA drives installed. with both Firewire 400 and USB 2 ports</p><p></p><p>I am using a Macintosh Power PC G4 (Mirror door Drive 2003) 1.25 GHZ single processor. running OSX 10.4.9</p><p></p><p></p><p>If I connect ONE of the drives with Firewire everything is O.K. Drive is recognised and can be used/formated</p><p></p><p>When I connect the second drive after the first drive has been recognised I get this notice:</p><p></p><p>"Device Removal" - The device you removed was not properly put away...</p><p></p><p>and the first drive disappears - i.e NO drives are visible.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If I boot with both Firewire drives connected - None appear.</p><p></p><p>The drive is also NOT recognised through a USB 2 port (on a seperate PCI Card)</p><p></p><p>If I plug the second drive into one of the USB 1 Ports on the mac motherboard it IS recognised!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Can you tell me why I cannot use both Firewire devices together. - Do they have the same i.d. and if so can I do anything about it to get it recognised?</p><p></p><p>Both drives work fine with Firewire if I use them seperately.</p><p></p><p>When I look in Disk Utilities at each drive (when connected seperately) they both have the same Connection ID. Is this the problem - and can I change the ID of one of them.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JMR, post: 417630, member: 32871"] I recently purchased 2 identical Welland 3.5 External hard Disk Enclosures. Both have 250 GB Seagate Barracuda Ultra ATA drives installed. with both Firewire 400 and USB 2 ports I am using a Macintosh Power PC G4 (Mirror door Drive 2003) 1.25 GHZ single processor. running OSX 10.4.9 If I connect ONE of the drives with Firewire everything is O.K. Drive is recognised and can be used/formated When I connect the second drive after the first drive has been recognised I get this notice: "Device Removal" - The device you removed was not properly put away... and the first drive disappears - i.e NO drives are visible. If I boot with both Firewire drives connected - None appear. The drive is also NOT recognised through a USB 2 port (on a seperate PCI Card) If I plug the second drive into one of the USB 1 Ports on the mac motherboard it IS recognised! Can you tell me why I cannot use both Firewire devices together. - Do they have the same i.d. and if so can I do anything about it to get it recognised? Both drives work fine with Firewire if I use them seperately. When I look in Disk Utilities at each drive (when connected seperately) they both have the same Connection ID. Is this the problem - and can I change the ID of one of them. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [/QUOTE]
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