Hey guys,
This is kinda frustrating since it should just work. I thought I'd put this out there in the event that someone has an idea of what to try.
I just got a new HDD to put into the PS3. Along with it I ordered an external enclosure (this one) to turn the existing 20 GB PS3 HDD into an external drive.
Everything came and I was setting everything up. When I put the old hdd into the shell, nothing happened with the Windows PC. It did not recognize the USB device at all. I figured that the desktop PC USB ports should be giving it ample power, but I jacked in a 5-volt AC just to be sure. Still nothing. I figured at this point either the drive was bad or the shell was bad.
After Linux finished installing on the new drive I popped it back out and put it into the shell. Just like that, Windows saw it (obviously it couldn't do anything with it, but the drive showed up under Disk Management). I was able to create partitions, format, and copy files over to the new drive. So the shell works.
Then I popped the old drive into my desktop on my SATA cable. What do you know? It worked. I used the Windows setup CD to create a partition and format it to FAT32 to alleviate that question mark as to what it wasn't being recognized. The drive works just fine as well.
I put the drive back into the shell and still nothing. Nada in My Computer, nada in Disk Management.
So, it's not a power thing as an AC line together with the Y-USB cable doesn't solve the problem. The shell works with another, newer, much bigger drive. The drive works when plugged directly into a SATA port in a PC. Any thoughts about why this little Seagate 20 GB drive won't play nice with this shell?
This is kinda frustrating since it should just work. I thought I'd put this out there in the event that someone has an idea of what to try.
I just got a new HDD to put into the PS3. Along with it I ordered an external enclosure (this one) to turn the existing 20 GB PS3 HDD into an external drive.
Everything came and I was setting everything up. When I put the old hdd into the shell, nothing happened with the Windows PC. It did not recognize the USB device at all. I figured that the desktop PC USB ports should be giving it ample power, but I jacked in a 5-volt AC just to be sure. Still nothing. I figured at this point either the drive was bad or the shell was bad.
After Linux finished installing on the new drive I popped it back out and put it into the shell. Just like that, Windows saw it (obviously it couldn't do anything with it, but the drive showed up under Disk Management). I was able to create partitions, format, and copy files over to the new drive. So the shell works.
Then I popped the old drive into my desktop on my SATA cable. What do you know? It worked. I used the Windows setup CD to create a partition and format it to FAT32 to alleviate that question mark as to what it wasn't being recognized. The drive works just fine as well.
I put the drive back into the shell and still nothing. Nada in My Computer, nada in Disk Management.
So, it's not a power thing as an AC line together with the Y-USB cable doesn't solve the problem. The shell works with another, newer, much bigger drive. The drive works when plugged directly into a SATA port in a PC. Any thoughts about why this little Seagate 20 GB drive won't play nice with this shell?
