Nothing happens when I plug this in. I've tried eSATA and USB, both with the power adapter. The blue light comes on but nothing else. The hard drive works in other enclosures so I know that isn't the problem. Enclosure is brand new. Not sure if it's driver issue or not
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Your assumptions are leading in the right direction.
- The blue light would just be denoting power to the device the red light would denote drive activity. The limitation on this enclosure is that its white papers states a "Hard Drive Compatibility: 320GB HDD capacity", but I have seen people use a 500GB drive that seemed to work. If your using a drive larger then 320GB this may be an issue.
- The enclosure HDD combo is Plug-N-Play via USB so this would mean drivers most likely are not the issue. I don't believe drivers are even packaged with the device which would mean they use protocol standard drivers from the OS.
- Make sure that you are not hooking the USB up to a external USB hub (especially a bus-powered one) while trouble shooting as it may not provide enough power. Connect the drive up to system USB controller directly while trouble shooting.
- I believe this device has the ability to hook up 2 USB cables at the same time for extra power (mainly while using the eSATA connection). Try hooking up the USB mini-B connector and the USB +5VDC connector and then hooking both up to the system on two different USB ports. This should then correct the possibility that your drive may not be getting enough power.
- Lastly, the enclosure could have a faulty IC on the PCB. Exchanging it would provide the answer for that.
Hope this was helpful. Thanks for visiting FixYa.comAccording to their site, the enclosure should have a 500GB limit http://www.eagletechusa.com/ET-CS2XMESU2... which is the current size I have in there. I'm using the Seagate Momentus XT. Here's the product spec page from Amazon, where I bought it
After removing and reinstalling my hard drive several times, it did finally mount (both USB and eSata). I haven't dared attempting to remove it though, so I will still call Eagle Tech since the only problems seems to be with hardware. I would advice other people who might have this problem who are also using a Macbook Pro with an ExpressCard slot to ensure that their express card driver is up to date or attempt to reinstall since my eSata wouldn't work until I did so. Thanks for the help!