Thank you for the reply Doug. Though the time is a bit more modern (re: these drives), your description is certainly accurate. No flames from me! :-) Best regards, Dana
On 7/3/04 5:24 PM, GDB-G3-OSX of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent > Dana Collins wrote: > >> Greetings all, >> Is it possible that some hard drives (ATA of course) would work w/ a beige >> G3 but not with a B+W? Or, pray tell, are "new world" Macs fussier about >> hard drives (like they are on RAM)? >> >> I have an Apple OEM 4gig ATA drive. Installed in a beige G3 tower, I booted >> off an OS 9.2.1 CD: the drive mounted and responded to a low-level >> (zero-out) formatting w/ out a hitch. >> >> I installed the same HD into a B+W (rev. 1 board), and also booted up in OS >> 9.2.1 - the HD would not mount >> >> I took the same machine/same HD and booted off of a Jaguar CD: >> 1) Disk Utility saw the HD and attempted to format and/or partition, >> appeared to be successful, but was not really based on the results that >> follow (note: an error message never appeared) >> 2) Repair would attempt to repair the drive, but suspiciously did so >> way-too-fast. >> 3) OS X installer never saw the drive >> >> I find this odd. Any comments? >> Best regards, >> Dana >> >> >> > Dana, coming from extensive PC experience and virtually no Mac > experience, the biggest item I have seen is the Mac's trouble > recognizing IDE/ATA drives, especially when/if you do a lot of drive > swapping. Early experiences with PC's when they first started using IDE > drives were similar. The problem is the number if different drive > manufacturers and the fact that the standard is so loose you could drive > a truck through it! Early on with PC's it was necessary to manually set > up the drive pararmeters in CMOS (PRAM) so that the computer would know > what it was. The earliest ones had to be installed using an old > outdated HD parameter chart that was designed for older MFM/RLL type > hard drives. You just had to pick one that was close enough to what you > had. A user definable setup choice made this much easier and finally > PC's were able to detect the drive so no setup was needed. It seems to > me that Apple came to this stage of trying to determine the drive type > on it's own and earlier firmware used to do this is not as good as it > could be. I only have beige G3 to base this on and I'm sure the later > machines do not have as much problem with swapping drives and > recognizing them for what the really are. Once they are setup and > working properly (and the PRAM battery is good) they seem to be very > stable. It's just when you swap drives that it seems to confuse the > PRAM. Okay all you "Macs forever, PC's never" guys, let the flames begin! > > Just a message from Doug... > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
