On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Gottick International <[email protected]> wrote: > > By all the experts here putting jumpers on this drive is not the way to go. > At least I was told so.
I would agree with that. As was also previously mentioned, the main reason for the jumper was because during the early days of SATA implementations some controllers did not correctly implement the auto-negotiation of the connection speed. As time passed and these controllers passed into history, the jumpers appear to have gone away or used for other purposes. At any rate, correctly implemented SATA should not require any jumpers on a SATA drive at least that's my understanding. > Right now the dirve shows up every other time (yes) > on Disk Utility and can not be partitioned or erased. DiksU claims that the > 500 GIG drive is 446 GIG. Well that doesn't sound right. If it were me I would attempt to narrow down where the fault might be. If returning it to the place you purchased it from is not an option, then I would see if the drive fails to work in either another system or as an external drive. If you can go back to a retailer then do so. I would assume they would probably test the drive themselves but they may just replace it for you. (I haven't bought hard drives other than by mail order in so long that I really have no idea what a retailer might do in this situation). In any case, I would suggest you do find out what is what soon. If the drive IS bad then the longer you wait the harder it may be to get whomever you bought the drive from to replace it. You could most likely still replace it under the manufacturer's warranty, but not as easily. (And I don't think you could be assured you'd be getting a new drive as a replacement in that case). -irrational john -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
