I have just successfully cloned my boot drive that was destroyed two weeks ago Monday to a new HD.
This was one of the easiest fixes I have ever done. I got a new HD controller card for the burned out drive from a guy in British Columbia who sells these on eBay. I put the repaired drive into a Firewire enclosure and copied it using Carbon Copy Cloner. The guy in BC sends a little torx screwdriver with the controller board, although I didn't need it. There are six screws that have to be removed (this is a Seagate drive). Remove the old controller and screw in the new one. The only problems I had involved the SIIG Ultra-133 controller card. This thing is almost totally useless. I tried booting up with the regular boot drive connected to the motherboard controller and the recovered drive and the new drive connected to the SIIG. After that everything I tried anything involving the SIIG shortly resulted in a kernel panic. At the moment I have nothing connected to the SIIG and its behaving itself. It's back to its old ways. I first bought that thing and all it did was kernel panic. That is why I got the Sonnet Tempo Ultra-133 ATA controller card which is excellent and has always worked flawlessly Oh well, I was able to copy my iTunes library to it. I don't know what gives, but if you have the opportunity to get one of these cards you should pass. Mark Murphy -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
