[GLLUG] Accessing Data on an IOMega HDD040 desktop HD

Ian Walker walkeri1 at msu.edu
Sun Jun 13 15:53:24 EDT 2010


Sounds to me like the USB bridge could be bad. Pop the drive out and  
put it into a known-good enclosure?

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Ian Walker
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On Jun 13, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Richard Houser <rick at divinesymphony.net>  
wrote:

> Bring it to the bbq?
>
> On 6/13/10, Frank Dolinar <frank.dolinar at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Hi, everyone,
>>     I'm trying to get at the data on an IOMega HDD040 desktop HD.
>>     The device appears to be functional, nice blue LED on top tells  
>> me it's
>> getting power and a very low level hum indicating
>>     This is a USB device and I've tried connecting to it from  
>> WinXP, Ubuntu
>> 9.10, and Mac OS X, to no avail.  It is utterly invisible.
>>     The IOMega site indicates that there is no separate driver for  
>> this
>> device because it's a USB device and such drivers are built into  
>> modern
>> operating systems.
>>     That's the theory anyway.
>>
>>     Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Frank
>>
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