I bit the bullet and bought an expensive 240GB Mercury Legacy Pro SSD for my PowerBook G4 15" (model 5,6 1.67GHz). OSX 10.5.8. 1GB RAM.
The install isn't difficult, just time consuming. I upgraded my PowerBook's HD before, installed a better superdrive and replaced the PRAM battery, so I'm comfortable with the procedure. I mistakenly thought the Mercury Legacy SSD would be a walk in the park but I can't get my PowerBook to see it. The SSD is visible when connected to a Mac Pro via an external USB adapter. It seems to be fine with the Mac Pro, just not the legacy PowerBook. On the PowerBook, the SSD does not appear in Disk Utility or System Profiler. I booted from my OSX install DVD. I also tried booting in TARGET DISK mode. The DVD could be seen by the other Mac but no SSD in TD Mode. I did a PMU and PRAM resets. No luck. The connectors seem ok and firmly seated. I reconnected the 5400RPM drive and that worked ok. I still had the original smaller drive lying around and that worked too. Just no joy with the Mercury Legacy Pro SSD. I reformatted the SSD on an intel Mac Pro and made sure the partition scheme is set to Apple Partition Map The PPC macs still don't see the SSD. I've tried now with my Quad-G5, a Dual-G4 and my powerbook. The Mac Pro will see the SSD but not the PPC Macs. OWC Tech support was closed this weekend when I was having such fun with the SSD. The OWC sales support provided a few suggestions but nothing that resolved my problem. I submitted a detailed email to OWC tech support but have not received any response yet. Does anyone here have success with PowerBooks and SSDs? Any suggestions and help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jaeson -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Books" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
