At 2:12 PM -0700 1/21/09, Bruce Johnson posted: > 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!
I have one of those -- stopped working after I lent it to a friend. The hard drive/s power on, the USB light comes on but the drive/s never mount (no error messages) nor are they seen on the USB bus with Disk Utility. So I ended up with a BlacX SATA 'toaster' (side bar) which works great. That's what I have planned on using when the hard drive from the G5 needs work to avoid having to bring the entire tower. I'm not understanding the rest of your message. The switcher will be using the G5 as a Mac with the drive formatted to Mac. I'll be looking at the drive via USB on the iMac. No NTFS drives involved. Steve R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
