You may need to subdivide the drive into smaller volumes depending on
what the capabilities are of the G4 firmware and the version of Mac OS
you are running. When formatting it's important to check the bootable
box. I'd look all the details up but you can do that yourself.
On 07/01/2015 09:30 PM, smac0031 wrote:
I tried to expand my TiVo. I got a 2TB WD My Book drive which turned
out to be USB 3.0. It won't work with my TiVo Premire. As the TiVo
wants an eSata drive.
I have had the model number for this eSata drive for quite some time,
but when I went to buy it Amazon notified me there was a newer model a
2TB drive for
the same price. So I bought it. It won't work with my TiVo so I moved
to plan B which was to use it with my DA G4.
In futzing around with it I found it had the windows something or
other file system on it. So I reformatted it, but it won't make nice
with the G4 either as it messes up
the sleep mode and it won't wake up and failing waking up it won't
find a boot drive on reboot. For the longest time my computer won't
shut down or reboot from
the Apple menu and I've pretty much given up trying that so if I want
to reboot or shut down I use the buttons on the front of the computer.
I'm pretty much thinking I will have to let this My Book drive sit
until I get an Intel Mac, however, I noticed when I formatted this
thing there were 4 different options
to format this drive for a Mac using Disk Utility. Does this make a
difference or is it as I suspect the ongoing boot issue with the USB port?
Mark Murphy
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