I would start by seeing whether the device is detected. Does it show up in DIsk Utility? If so, can you see the disk? If you can, you may need to reformat the disk; if not play with jumpers and any other settings you can find.
If it does not show up in DU, open System Profiler and look at Hardware>FireWire. Does the device show up there? If it doesn't, no amount of fiddling with jumpers will help you. Your problem is elsewhere. Have you tested the FW ports and cable with known good devices? I am guessing that your writer dates to 2000/2001. The FIreWIre bridge in it may be too old to handle larger, newer drives. How large? not sure but greater than 128 GB at a guess. On Mar 5, 1:20 am, Paul <pper...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just got an external CD writer with a firewire (400) connection. I > got it for the firewire, not for the CD, so I opened it up and > installed a hard drive in place of the CD drive, and set the jumper to > master, which was how the CD drive was set. > > The CD worked all right, but the hard drive doesn't show up on the > desktop. I'm running a G4 AGP with OS 10.4.11. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
