On Apr 14, 5:53 pm, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2011, at 7:33 PM, tortoise wrote:
>
> > "does not work" at all. does not show up in finder. probably not
> > spinning i think.
*Note*
the drive *works* on my G4 DA Tower, plugged into an addon PCI usb2
card.
(that g4 is running leopard as is my g4 powerbook where it did not
work)
that is it works on the G4-DA with the MBR format and everything the
same.
>
> You said it worked on a MacBook. When you plug it into your MacBook,
> if you navigate to System Profiler>USB, what does it show? (copy/paste
> to your reply).
>From Apple > About This Mac > More (System Profiler) > USB
USB High-Speed Bus:
Host Controller Location: Built In USB
Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBEHCI
PCI Device ID: 0x27cc
PCI Revision ID: 0x0002
PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086
Bus Number: 0xfd
Express USB2:
Capacity: 74.53 GB
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: Yes
BSD Name: disk2
Product ID: 0x00db
Vendor ID: 0x0dc4 (Macpower & Tytech Technology Co., LTD.)
Version: 0.00
Serial Number: 0009081B103C
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: OWC
Location ID: 0xfd100000
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 2
Mac OS 9 Drivers: No
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 74.21 GB
Available: 23.14 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk2s2
Mount Point: /Volumes/Macintosh HD
>
> Also, when mounted on your MacBook, if you go to Disk Utility and
> highlight the drive and press the "Info" button, what does this show
> (again, copy/paste).
>From Disk Utility "i" button (whole drive selected):
Name : TOSHIBA MK8034GSX Media
Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : GUID Partition Table
Disk Identifier : disk2
Media Name : TOSHIBA MK8034GSX Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : USB
USB Serial Number : 0009081B103C
Device Tree : /PCI0@0/USB7@1D,7/@3:0
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : Yes
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : External
Total Capacity : 74.5 GB (80,026,361,856 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 2
Partition Number : 0
(single partition - the only one - selected)
Name : Macintosh HD
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk2s2
Mount Point : /Volumes/Macintosh HD
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : USB
Device Tree : /PCI0@0/USB7@1D,7/@3:2
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : 93B35CCB-E20C-32F3-8DCB-2DB0D60AD503
Capacity : 74.2 GB (79,682,387,968 Bytes)
Free Space : 23.2 GB (24,916,365,312 Bytes)
Used : 51.0 GB (54,766,022,656 Bytes)
Number of Files : 646,577
Number of Folders : 194,771
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
Disk Number : 2
Partition Number : 2
>
> The things I'm interested in are the chipset of the USB bridge board
> of the external enclosure, and the partition format of the HD (which I
> assume is Apple Partition Format and HFS+ file system since you said
> this HD was your old HD). If you know the exact model of the external
> enclosure, that might help also for finding the correct external power
> transformer (assuming you actually need one, which normally isn't
> required for 2.5" HDs unless you need to boot USB).
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