I do know from experience though that even if it isn't jumpered right the drive will still open... unless of course it is the dvdrw... I will try that when i get home.-Jonas
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:43 AM, dc <[email protected]> wrote: > > If the hard drive has gone bad and the optical drive is the only > device on the bus then the cable position and/or master/slave/cs > jumpers on the optical drive may need to be reset in order for the > drive to be recognized. The same would apply to the hard drive if it > is the DVD drive that has gone bad, but generally hard drives are more > likely to fail. I'd try unplugging the hard drive, putting the DVD > drive on the last cable connector with the jumpers set as Master and > see what happens. > > On Mar 26, 4:23 am, Jonas Ulrich <[email protected]> wrote: > > For use as my personal server I have a Digital Audio Powermac G4 533MHZ. > > 250GB, 80GB, 80GB 60GB HD's. 1.25GB Ram. Weird things are happening. I > was > > watching a movie and the screensaver started. I started the movie and > again > > and it didn't do it again. Then tonight I was going to copy a dvd and i > went > > to the program and in the process of scanning the dvd in the drive it > froze > > up. So I force quit and then it wouldn't open again. Then i relaunched > the > > finder which also completely froze up. I Did a hard restart and when it > > started up i opened the program to copy the dvd. It opened but showed no > dvd > > drive. then i realized that the dvd drive and the hard drive that share > the > > same onboard ATA were not there! I restarted again. Nothing. I > > have verified that the dvdrw drive isn't getting power or at least i > can't > > open it. Help would be greatly appreciated. I am actually going to be > > replacing this computer with and Xserve soon.-Jonas > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
