This discussion regarding external hard drives vs online back-up sites
reminded me to ask about my Passport external hard drive. It is a
750gb 2.5" drive that I was using with my Intel MacBook without the
SmartDrive software that comes preloaded on the drive. I used it with
TimeMachine to backup my MacBook for a while, but when I gave away my
MacBook to my youngest Son as a graduation present when he left to go
to college after High School, I kept the Passport external drive to
use with my 1.67GHz G4 17-inch PowerBook, model 5.9 (the last one's
made). That is when I found out that the Passport does not get
recognized by the G4 PowerBook at all when plugged in to either of the
USB ports.
That is when I did some research and found that Western Digital's
Passport external drives come in two flavors, one for Windows and one
for MacOSX. Does anyone here know how to get my Passport drive to be
usable with my G4 PowerBook? Since giving away my MacBook to my Son,
my G4 PowerBook is my most used computer (due to my back condition
that keeps me in bed now and the PowerBook being my only laptop, of
the 15 or 20 computers I have here at home). I would really like to
get this Passport external drive working with MacOSX 10.5.8 and
MorphOS3.0 beta on my G4 PowerBook.
AmigaDave from Big Bear Lake, Calif.
1.67GHz G4 15-inch PowerBook w/MorphOS3.0 beta, 1.67GHz G4 17-inch
PowerBook w/dual boot MacOSX & MorphOS3.0 beta, Dual 1.42GHz G4 MDD
PowerMac w/Triple boot MorphOS2.7/MacOSX/Ubuntu10.10, Dual 2.7GHz G5
PowerMac w/Triple boot MorphOS2.7/MacOSX/Ubuntu10.10 and more than a
dozen Amiga's with Motorola 680x0 CPU's inside and one Windows
computer with a 3.0GHz Quad Core Extreme.
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