At 7:22 PM -0800 11/28/2011, David W. Morris wrote:
my Passport external hard drive.
(and the robot's arms start to flail whilst it yell Danger! Danger!)
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.
We've covered this before in various threads. WD (My)Passport drives suck. Stay away from them. There are numerous firmware / corruption / data loss issues, that WD has never managed to resolve. It's so bad that even WD says they're not to be used as boot volumes on Macs.
the Passport does not get recognized by the G4 PowerBook at all when plugged in to either of the USB ports.
Explain please "does not get recognized". Exactly what happens or doesn't happen.
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?
"for Mac" simply means that they slapped a HFS+ partition and Mac craplets on it, instead of FAT or NTFS.
If the drive doesn't seem to be spinning up, and if it's one of the models that has no external power supply... some of the Passport drives violate the USB spec by trying to draw more power than is permitted. Macs, especially older ones, don't tolerate that too well. The solution there is to try a powered or overpowered hub, or one of those splitter cables that lets you plug into two separate USB buses simultaneously, to leech the xtra power.
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