I have a Western Digital 320 GB drive recently purchased from Best Buy. I'm running it USB with a G4 and 10.3.9. It also has firewire capability. Since I'm already using 2 firewire externals I chose to use the USB.
It powers on and off with the computer (supposedly)! THE CATCH - when I shut down my computer it will restarts on it's own!
Tech support finally said it was defective! They wanted me to try the firewire hookup to eliminate the possibility it was just the USB. I haven't done that as yet. Now when I shut down I just unplug the thing from the strip.
Have you tried using the computer without the drive hooked up?? Could be a problem with it.
Best - LLL
On Apr 26, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I've run into an unusual problem with my G5 running OS 10.5.2. It
> >> began after I transferred some things via firewire from the G5 to my
> >> daughter's new macbook last night and had trouble getting the G5
> >> released by the macbook when we were done. an apple tech guy said to
> >> shut down the G5 and it wouldn't do any harm. I also installed some
> >> software updates last night from apple. Today I've noticed the G5
> >> frequently restarting on its own and it sometimes is after 15 or 20
> >> minutes I think. I am using time machine with a western digital 500
> >> gigabyte external drive. I have run repair preferences and disk
> >> repair
> >> and that didn't seem to help. I will enormously appreciate any
> >> suggestions--I'm afraid I did some significant damage to the computer
> >> with the firewire transfer problems. Thanks for suggestions--Ben Zion
> >> Hershberg
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