Hi,

I purchased a laptop recently and an external drive enclosure for my 80 gig
Seagate 3.5" drive to store my audio. I've spent the afternoon aimlessly trying to get XP to
detect the thing to no avail. The enclosure is a Skymaster DEM-1351 and
I've hooked up my HDD and powered the unit up and the disk spins up fine.
Secondly, I've hooked up the firewire cable from the unit (6pin) to my
Laptop (4pin), rebooted countless times, tried powering up the laptop
first - enclosure second - cable third, and every combination of each and XP
simply won't detect the unit. It does not appear in either "My Computer" or
under "Disk Management", and I'm about all out of ideas at this point and
looking for some help.

Specs on my system:

P4 2.0ghz
SIS 650 chipset
256 DDRAm
VIA OCHI Compliant 1394 Host Controller (unsure on exact model - this is
merely the XP device listing)

Very appreciative if someone can offer some insight.

Rgds,

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Simon