Firewire Question
I just got an external CD writer with a firewire (400) connection. I got it for the firewire, not for the CD, so I opened it up and installed a hard drive in place of the CD drive, and set the jumper to master, which was how the CD drive was set. The CD worked all right, but the hard drive doesn't show up on the desktop. I'm running a G4 AGP with OS 10.4.11. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Firewire Question
Try changing the jumpers for now...until someone else says something. By the way that approach only work sometimes. Paul wrote: I just got an external CD writer with a firewire (400) connection. I got it for the firewire, not for the CD, so I opened it up and installed a hard drive in place of the CD drive, and set the jumper to master, which was how the CD drive was set. The CD worked all right, but the hard drive doesn't show up on the desktop. I'm running a G4 AGP with OS 10.4.11. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Firewire Question
I would start by seeing whether the device is detected. Does it show up in DIsk Utility? If so, can you see the disk? If you can, you may need to reformat the disk; if not play with jumpers and any other settings you can find. If it does not show up in DU, open System Profiler and look at HardwareFireWire. Does the device show up there? If it doesn't, no amount of fiddling with jumpers will help you. Your problem is elsewhere. Have you tested the FW ports and cable with known good devices? I am guessing that your writer dates to 2000/2001. The FIreWIre bridge in it may be too old to handle larger, newer drives. How large? not sure but greater than 128 GB at a guess. On Mar 5, 1:20 am, Paul pper...@gmail.com wrote: I just got an external CD writer with a firewire (400) connection. I got it for the firewire, not for the CD, so I opened it up and installed a hard drive in place of the CD drive, and set the jumper to master, which was how the CD drive was set. The CD worked all right, but the hard drive doesn't show up on the desktop. I'm running a G4 AGP with OS 10.4.11. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Firewire Question
The drives I uses are all well under 128 GB, and they work OK if I install them internally in the G4. I'll check to see if Disk Utility and System Profiler show the drive. Ideally, I'd use this external case with drives in both Mac and PC formats. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Firewire Question
did some fiddlin like that with a ata 33 cdburner - never worked - sadly ... k 2009/3/6 Paul pper...@gmail.com The drives I uses are all well under 128 GB, and they work OK if I install them internally in the G4. I'll check to see if Disk Utility and System Profiler show the drive. Ideally, I'd use this external case with drives in both Mac and PC formats. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
