On Jun 4, 2015, at 6:16 PM, smac0031 <m.smurph...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I tried swapping 1TB seagate from my G5 into my DA G4 and the new drive into > the G5. > > The new drive would spin in the G5 and would not come up under Disk Utility. > > The Seagate came up in the G4 and after about a minute the G4 had a kernel > panic. > > I'm sending the new drive back. Weak link may be the sata pata adapter, but > that would not explain why the > G5 couldn't see it. > > Thanks to everybody, I think I'm going to get an intel Mac, one that can play > with my iPhone 5c. > > Mark Murphy
Perhaps you’re not swapping hardware “correctly”? When you’re changing hardware, you need to do two things: 1) zap the PRAM so the firmware reinitializes. 2) Safe Boot to ditch the old boot.cache and rebuild the kext.cache so the new kext configuration is present for the subsequent boot. If you don’t at least Safe Boot once, you’re using the old boot.cache & kext.cache, so it’s trying to boot with the old hardware configuration. This can often result in panic. I don’t know what type of SATA adapter you’re using, but the best choice is usually a PCI card. Some cards have “special” firmware for some models of G4 that have “known problems”. -- -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
