Did anyone succeed to fill a 8 or 9 bay HD enclosure with Seagate
750's and got them all to work?
I had until now 5 of these 750s working in my enclosure... two per
FireWire ****t as master / slave pairs, the last lonely HD set to
master. The rig worked like a charm.
But now that I'm trying to add the next 2 Seagate 750's following the
same system, for a total of seven - no dice. One of more of the HDs
always vanishes. Formatting of the new drives fails. Swapping cables
and FireWire ****ts solves nothing.
Did anyone run into the same problem, yet? Was there a solution?
My only hunch for now is that perhaps the 300 Watt power supply in my
enclosure is too weak to run more than five 750 Giggers along with
their 10 cooling fans, hence all these weird problems, caused by power
fluctuation. Perhaps i should plug a voltmeter into one of the
remaining empty HD power plugs and measure what I get, as compared to
the Seagate's +5V 0.72A and +12V 0.52A specs, printed on the label?
(Then again, it's only a hunch...)
Grateful thanks for all helpful suggestions in advance
George
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