Always in the the minutiae?
This morning I wondered if maybe, somehow…
your FW extensions had been turned off, corrupted
or deleted in some way. So I turned mine off and
voilá… ASP reported “no devices found on this bus”
and the same VST FW drive was attached
(previously recognized and mounted).
Then, just a bit more digging to discover the following:
So, if you do not have the original installer disc for the
SmartDisk FireLight FW drive, you may need search for
SmartDisk Tools to download & install. Or try
Intech’s,
Hard Disk Speed Tools from:
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hard-disk-speedtools-36(for OS 9).
Your new 128 GB SSD with a fresh install of OS 9 would
not have either of the above installed, nor would any
booted OS 9 installer disc - which is quite possibly why
the FireLight drive might not mount or even be recognized.
What still bothers me however, is that even when you
re-installed the original 240 GB SSD (which likely had
SmartDisk Tools on it)… it would not recognize the new
120 GB in the FireLight enclosure? Perhaps this was
due to the new 120 GB not being initialized / formatted?
Is
SmartDisk Tools installed on your PowerBook Ti
OR did you boot that under
OS X?
Your QS FW ports might be a-ok after all.
*AND if the
SmartDisk Tools are installed on your
PowerBook Ti you might be able to simply copy them
over to your Quicksilver.
STILL…With the 240 GB in the OWC enclosure AND the QS booted from an installer disc (or from a completely new OS 9 installation on the 120 GB SSD) - one would think that the OWC FW enclosure (with the 240) would mount?
But
IF you also install Tiger on a 2nd partition (on the new internal 120 GB drive) you might then boot Tiger and see if the OWC / 240 would then mount? Testing again the function of your firewire ports as the firewire drives mount via the PowerBook.
One fried FW port maybe? But both? Difficult to accept.