help help Western Digital hd external wont mount

[carbonmotion]

Hi, before I began my tale of woe, let me tell you what system i have ...
I'm running on OS 10.4.6 on a 1gz Powerbook G4 15" Aluminum model. I had a spare 5.25" 30 gb Maxtor UATA HD, so i bought a no name USB 2.0 enclosure (200gb max) and stuck the maxtor in there as an external... all good right? sure it works like charm. I bought a Western Digital 160 gb harddrive and stuck it to the same enclosure and no matter what i do i t wont mount on my powerbook... the read/writing and power light are both lit but not mounting occurs... anyone with any advice? I check some mac message boards, and it seems like mounting WD disks is tricky in general. I really need help, please someone help me?

 

[CanadaRAM]

Did you set the 160 Gb drive to Master with the jumpers?

You have Erased the drive with DiskUtility, yes? A new HD won't mount until it is Erased or Partitioned and has a Mac volume to mount.

If yes to both of the above, it could be that the noname case can't provide sufficient power.

 

[carbonmotion]

Did you set the 160 Gb drive to Master with the jumpers?

You have Erased the drive with DiskUtility, yes? A new HD won't mount until it is Erased or Partitioned and has a Mac volume to mount.

If yes to both of the above, it could be that the noname case can't provide sufficient power.

its a 12 v dc power... i dont see that as a problem

i dont see it in disk util
and it is set to master single

 

[carbonmotion]

its a 12 v dc power... i dont see that as a problem

i dont see it in disk util
and it is set to master single

it mounts fine on windows cause the drive is formated ntsf

 

[CanadaRAM]

its a 12 v dc power... i dont see that as a problem

i dont see it in disk util
and it is set to master single

"12 VDC" doesn't tell you how much current it will deliver before it goes unstable...

Formatted NTFS is a problem for Macs, because Macs cannot write to an NTFS volume.

 

[generik]

"12 VDC" doesn't tell you how much current it will deliver before it goes unstable...

Formatted NTFS is a problem for Macs, because Macs cannot write to an NTFS volume.

NTFS volumes do mount as read only.