I've seen various drives and drive enclosures over the years that are particular about the power supply. I've had identical drive enclosures that certain drives will only work with one of the power supplies when I have several identical power supplies. I have always assumed this was because a certain drive need just a bit more umph or current/voltage to spin up.
Today I have a GDrive USB C and it will only mount with the power supply it came with. I have several power supplies that work with other Graid up to 20TB enclosures but when I use them on this GDrive it lights up but wont mount on the desktop of my mid 2012 macpro OS 10.12.6. The kicker is I have the Graid utility that detects the presence of Graid drives. I somehow installed it a while back and whenever I spin up a Graid etc... the top right of the GUI shows a dialogue of what mounted. The odd thing is when I use anything but the power supply that came with the GDrive the Graid Utility senses the drive is there and shows the dialogue box but the drive never mounts and it is not visible in Disk Utility.
I'm wondering if the other power supplies are enough to fire up the hardware in the enclosure but not get the drive spinning. I'm just guessing out loud but it was just weird that the Graid utility sees that there is an enclosure powered up but no drive mounts.
Anybody have any idea what might be goingon?
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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