CalDigit VR Firewire-software issues, disappears
I bought a CalDigit VR Firewire- 2 drive enclosure and put 2 WD Caviar Black 2tb drives in it. I decided for my needs I wanted to just use the JBOD setting so that if there was ever a problem I could take the drives out and use them in an old SATA USB enclosure.
CalDigit has a dial to hardware format the disks to JBOD. It showed both disks on my desktop so I loaded up one as backup to all my smaller disks. The drive is hooked up to my iMac via FW 800. After loading all my data to Drive 1, and backing up my computer info to Drive 2 via Carbon Copy Cloner, the drive started placing multiple folders on my Desktop with nothing in them, but with the same name as the drive.
Then I restarted my computer...and both drives disappeared from my desktop. All those created folders with the Drive's names disappeared also. In Disk Utilitiy, no disks again. All my other Hard Drives, including the other FW800 drive I have that is daisychained out of the CalDigit is still on the desktop and able to be used, but BOTH CalDigit drives are missing.
What is my problem and is there a software solution that I can use to find the drives? I have an iMac so I cannot use a card, even the card that CalDigit makes for FW 800. I've restarted the drive and my computer and the drive is the only thing that continues to not show up.
Hmm, I hadn't really considered the fact that these were sort of on the cutting edge with Firewire at the time they were introduced. That would certainly explain their being somewhat temperamental about different connections (working with OS X's built in Firewire networking but not with my external hard drive). It also explains why my iBook has no problems whatsoever, having been introduced in September of 2000 by which time all then little kinks had likely been worked out.
Well, though it doesn't help me get the drive to connect via the Firewire ports on my machine, your anecdote does seem to point to the Blue and Whites simply having potential issues with various Firewire devices on their built in Firewire bus. If that's true, which would not surprise me at this point, then the solution would simply be to install a separate, modern Firewire controller, or in my case, continue using the drive with the machine over my USB 2.0 controller. At least I'm not doing something wrong .
I have been aware from the very start of messing with this machine that this particular model family consists of some VERY flaky beasts, but that seems to be what makes it fun for me .
Thanks for the B&W story. Like I said, it may not seem like much, but it has helped .
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I am running Lightroom 1.1 on a Mac, OS 10.4.10. When LR is running, it fills the entire screen - and does mot show the traditional window with buttons for minimizing. I seem to remember that this was what LR looked like when I began using it, and I