At 9:06 PM -0800 12/3/04, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:At 11:46 PM -0500 12/3/04, Mary wrote:At 7:52 PM -0800 12/3/04, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
I just bought a Maxtor 200GB drive ($99) and put it into a new MacAlly 100AF Firewire case. However, I can't get it to mount on the desktop of my G4 iMac nor does it show up in Disk Utility. Have I wasted my money? I thought that I could partition it into two 100GB partitions and use one as a back-up for my G4 iMac and the other for my G4 Powerbook.
System Profiler sees it, or...?
No.
Know about the firmware update? http://www.macally.com/techsupport/drivers.html
Looks like that is the problem so I'm screwed. I have two Macs running 10.3.6 and two running 9.1. I can only update the firmware with a Mac running 10.1.x through 10.3.5.
So, boot up from an OS X CD (other than 10.3.6), format the firewire drive if needed, install the OS with a minimum configuration, load the firmware updater on the disk, run it and you are set.
Duh! That is an excellent idea. I'll try that.
If it won't run from the drive, install the 200Gb drive into the computer, install a pre-OSX.3.6 version on it and so on.
No can do: G4 iMac and G4 Powerbook. -- Sincerely, Dennis B. Swaney
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