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  1. >>I use mine for music, hers is used mainly for Facebook. That's an amazingly familiar scenario here in our household! Thanks to everyone for the encouragement! I'll bust the Mini open and report back. Won't have the time until Thursday evening (if I'm lucky) or the weekend. I am also going to ask the OWC folks if they know why it won't work.
  2. And I do not have the optional power supply. You are right the Mini only has 800 ports; I used an adapter. When I couldn't get it to work as such, I took the external case to work and tried in the FW400 of my Mac Tower. Still no mount. The blue pilot light of the case comes on but that's all I see. Too bad the SSD has no moving parts so I can listen for whether it has power ;-)
  3. Hey Chris, It's an older version of the attached image (FireWire 400 rather than 800). Bus powered; could that have something to do with it? Cannot see it on Disk Utility. Phil, Yeah, maybe I should just get in there. Do you know if it's possible to fire it up for a test prior to snapping it back together? Roger
  4. Hi, I'm hung up trying to install a new OCZ 60GB Vertex Turbo in my Mac Mini (late 2009 model with Snow Leopard). My plan was: 1) put the SSD into my OWC Mercury On-the-Go housing, and connect to the Mini by FireWire 400. 2) Clone the Mini's internal hard drive to the SSD. 3) Swap the SSD into the Mini (also upgrade to 4GB RAM while I have it open). Problem is the SSD won't mount when installed in the external case. If the Mini were an easy machine to open up, I'd go ahead and try installing the SSD directly in the CPU then clone the old drive to it. But I really don't want to open it until I know if the SSD is going to work in there. Can somebody talk me through this or point me to where I can get the information I need? I tried to get help from OCZ, but I'm not sure humans were ever involved on their end, and they just went directly into giving me an RMA and swapped the drive for another one which also doesn't mount when installed in my external case. Thanks, Roger
  5. I didn't find a way to do it with XLD. Instead, I made a single destination folder on the firewire connected drive, then used Automator to send it from that folder to the 2 destinations I was originally hoping for. If the network drive is not connected the files just stay in the original destination and I transfer them when it gets re-connected. I haven't been using this solution for long, but it seems to work fine.
  6. I just got XLD up and running on my Mac Mini. Is there a way to set more than one output directory for the aiff files it creates? I have two 1TB external drives; one attached to the Mini via firewire, the other plugged into the USB port of an Airport Extreme attached via ethernet to my home network. I would like the same content on both disks and it would be nice if that happened automatically when I rip via XLD. If I can't do it that way, I'll probably rip to the directly attached drive and set up Carbon Copy Cloner to automatically back that one up to the one on the network. Advice appreciated, Roger
  7. Hello! Just wanted to compliment and thank Chris and all of this site's contributors. I've been pouring through the posts since I discovered this place last weekend and I'm finding it to be an outstanding resource! I'm really looking forward to getting my Mac Mini based music server hooked up to my main listening system and have already learned a lot here to help with that effort. Very glad to know about this site, Roger Schow
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