G-Drive Mini won't mount

Hello all,
A little back story:
I used a 160gb G-Drive Mini with my 15 Al Powerbook G4 (w/OSX 10.4.11) extensively for a couple years with a firewire 400 cable. One day the drive's firewire port crapped out, and since the machine doesnt have the power to run the drive on USB, I figured out that hooking up both USB and firewire cables worked for mounting the drive. (I assume the firewire port was powering the drive and USB was working for data transfer) Time went on, got used to using the drive like this, got fed up, one day decided to send it in for repair, got my drive back and it still wouldnt mount when using just a firewire cable, sent the drive back again and they sent me a brand new one which i just got today.
Drive still wont mount with just the firewire 400. The drive powers up just fine. I can hear it spin when plugged in, but never mounts. It's also not present in disk utility or system profiler. Tried different cables.
Is there anything I can do?
Thanks.

Hi, roland, and welcome to AppleDiscussions. Sounds to me like insufficient power from the FireWire port alone. That's a rare problem with FireWire drives and Powerbooks, though it's much more the rule than the exception with USB drives and Powerbooks. If you choose to keep using this particular brand and model of drive, you'll probably have to use both the USB and FireWire ports to get enough power to it. It apparently requires considerably more power than most bus-powered FireWire drives do, and/or your Powerbook is putting out considerably less than most other Powerbooks.

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