Hi Nora, You are correct!. Your ibook does have USB 1.0 ports which are rated slow throughput (12MBits/sec). We know the drive works because it mounts on your Windows computer. Lets hope that the Western Digital external hard drive (it's not a Flash drive) has multiple ports for connecting.
If so, try using the firewire port on the drive to connect to your Mac. You may need to buy the appropriate cable. Once connected, see if it mounts. Whether it does or not, launch Disk Utility on your Mac and see if it recognizes your drive. It should. Reformat the drive Mac compatible. You should be good to go! Ward On Sep 22, 2007, at 2:18 AM, nprobasco wrote: > Ward, > > I bought a 160 gig flash drive for my laptop computer. I have the > 14" ibook that has the G-3 processor. I have been able to use other > flash drives, but this is the first time I have tried one this > large. I plug the unit in and it just makes a clicking sound but > never loads the necessary software. It is supposed to be Mac > compatible with the OS I have. I tried it on a friends Windoze > computer and it worked fine. > > Is it because of the old G-3 processors, or did that ibook have 1.0 > USB ports instead of 2.0. It is made by Western Digital and I got > it at Costco. Help! I would really like to use it, but am afraid > that it won't work on this particular laptop. > > Nora > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 25 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
