On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Steve R wrote:
> The upper bay is harder to get the drive out. The G5 is being lent > out to a switcher who is constantly bringing her PC that she uses now > to the neighbour to fix. Since I don't want her lugging my entire > tower up and down stairs, in and out of cars, I plan on telling her > to bring only the hard drive when she needs work done. The easiest > drive bay is the lower one. Apple ships with one drive, in the upper > bay. Thus the question, is there any reason to have the one drive in > the upper bay, or can it be reinstalled in the lower easier-to-access > bay? > > Steve R Go get one of these NOW <http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020&cat=HDD> This is the same one we've been using for a few years now here in the office and it's been a major lifesaver! Go install MacFuse <http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/> and NTFS-3G <http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ > and you'll get read-write access to NTFS disks. The latest version complains mightily about NTFS drives being marked as dirty (common when doing recovery and repair), and won't mount. Unfortunately the instructions in the alert don't work. IN the alert it will say something about /dev/diakXsY where X and Y are numbers, like /dev/disk2s1 You need to do this: make a directory in /Volumes, then use the ntfs-3g command to force- mount the device In Terminal: mkdir /Volumes/NTFS sudo ntfs-3g /dev/diskXsY /Volumes/NTFS - olocale = en_US.UTF-8,force,auto_xattr,defer_auth,defer_permissions,volname="NTFS" (Note that second line is done ALL on one line, and substitute the correct device info for diskXsY) There may be a simple fix for this, but I looked this up under the gun, and haven't had time to debug it since I upgraded both MacFuse and NTFS-3G. This will make a writeable volume pop up on your desktop called NTFS. When you drag it to the trash to dismount it, the system will delete the NTFS directory you made. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
