[Leica] Seagate - again

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At 08:27 PM 8/1/2009, you wrote:
>Ouch, it's so hard to read all this and be thousands of miles away 
>unable to help.

I wish you were here!!

>If it is a SATA disk, and the enclosure is bad, you can take the 
>disk out of the enclosure and put it into another SATA enclosure of 
>similar vintage, and it will work with no risk to you. The reason 
>the enclosures need to be of similar vintage is that older 
>enclosures don't deal well with larger more modern disks. It's 
>always OK to replace an older SATA enclosure with a newer one, but 
>not vice versa.

I think that's my problem with my old Venus cases.  They are of older 
vintage for sure.  I'm hoping the Drobo might work with this drive, 
in addition to the WD ones that I ordered for it.

>It is not a good idea to take a disk that has been in an external 
>USB or FireWire enclosure and mount it inside your computer. It can 
>be done and it usually works, but it's kind of like the home birth 
>of a baby: most of the time it works just fine, but every now and 
>then you really want to have a surgeon nearby.

I had my babies at home ;-) but I won't try to put the disk inside my 
computer.

Tina

Tina Manley
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