Do Seagate drives require more power than a Maxtor? EDIT: NEVERMIND

[aphex]

Bought a 300gb Seagate PATA and put it in a Rosewill RX30 External Enclosure (USB 2.0).

The drive is not detected on my windows laptop nor my mac mini desktop.

I have the same enclosure (except FW & USB2.0) w/ a Maxtor 250gb drive and it works fine...

Could the Seagate have a higher power draw than the Maxtor? Any other ideas why it might not be working?

It sounds like the Seagate is spinning up...

 

[aphex]

This is the enclosure; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817173012
This is the HD; http://www.compusa.com/products/product...=335866&pfp=search&tabtype=ts#moreinfo

 

[aphex]

Im an idiot, needed to set the drive to master, not CS

 

[bigboxes]

As much time as most of us spend using, troubleshooting, and fixing PCs we still do things like you describe. I remember one time recently I had to troubleshoot some hdds and was turning the machine on and off repeatedly in my attempt to isolate the issue. In my hurry to fix my problem I quickly disconnected one hdd and rebooted. The machine would not boot up. I did this over and over and couldn't figure out why now the machine wouldn't boot up. I was like "crap... it must be the os drive". Turns out I had turned the power switch on the psu to off. D'oh!

 

[batmanuel]

My favorite gotcha is with most of the PATA Western Digital drives which have an extra jumper setting for a single drive on a channel. If you set the drive to master out of habit instead of parking the jumper, it acts all screwy.