At 9:24 PM -0800 12/3/04, Clark Martin wrote: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
Mary
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.
That didn't work. I tried booting up using DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro 4, and OS 10.3.0 install disk. None of them show the desktop so that I can access the MacAlly Firewire Updater application. While I can boot up into OS 9, I don't think that I can run the updater in it. So, I'm either definitely screwed until Apple fixes the bug in 10.3.6 or I have to go buy another Mac that doesn't come with 10.3.6 (or later) on it.
Did you try installing OS X (minimum configuration) onto the external drive then boot from it to run the updater.
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