Re: Portable HD Firewire 400
Hi Merv, As far as I know, you don't need the firewire port on the drive to be FW400 - FW 800 is backward compatible. All you need is a FW400 to FW800 cable, depending on the drive you buy it may even be thrown in. When FW800 drives first came out, they tended to ship with both fw800 fw400 ports (the first I bought was like this) - but then they just started shipping with fw800 ports and some suppliers threw in both fw800 cables and fw800 to fw400 cables (that's what I got with my second fw800 drive). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 3/4/12 10:15 AM, Merv Bond at m...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni and James Thank you for your responses and your ten step process Ronni. If possible I will now purchase a HD with a firewire 400 port. Regards Merv -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Portable HD Firewire 400
Thanks for that Neil. I will check that out when in the process of purchasing. Regards Merv On 3/04/12 3:53 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Merv, As far as I know, you don't need the firewire port on the drive to be FW400 - FW 800 is backward compatible. All you need is a FW400 to FW800 cable, depending on the drive you buy it may even be thrown in. When FW800 drives first came out, they tended to ship with both fw800 fw400 ports (the first I bought was like this) - but then they just started shipping with fw800 ports and some suppliers threw in both fw800 cables and fw800 to fw400 cables (that's what I got with my second fw800 drive). Cheers Neil -- The whole psychology of modern disquiet is linked with the sudden confrontation with space-time. (Teilhard de Chardin, 'The Phenomenon of Man') -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Portable HD Firewire 400
yes you can, you may have to format/initialize anyway if you want to use mac hfs may gui aswell, disk utility will do the job, but beware all data will be destroyed when doing this James SAD Technic U3 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA Australia +618 9370 5307 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132) sad...@iinet.net.au http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/ Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. On 02/04/2012, at 6:05 PM, Merv Bond wrote: We have an iMac Power PC G5 running OS X 10.4.11. It has two Firewire ports, both 400. HD capacity approx 500 GB. I am searching for a like capacity portable HD with a firewire port but these days most of the devices are at least 1TB and only occasionally do they have a 400 port - obviously superseded. However, if I purchase a 1TB HD, with a 400 Firewire port, can I partition it so that half of the disk is a viable bootable HD for the G5? Your advice appreciated. Merv -- The whole psychology of modern disquiet is linked with the sudden confrontation with space-time. (Teilhard de Chardin, 'The Phenomenon of Man') -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Portable HD Firewire 400
Hi Merv, To create a Bootable external drive for your Power PC you need to format the drive, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and Partition it 'Apple Partition Map’ 1. Make sure to copy any files on your external hard disk to another location because reformatting will erase them. 2. Click on your computer hard disk’s icon. Select Applications → Utilities → Disk Utility. 3. In Disk Utility's left hand column, click on the Drive icon of your External Drive. Make sure you click on the first icon, not the second level volume icon. 4. Select the Partition tab. 5. Select the Volume Scheme ( select 2 Partitions); and Format type from the Format drop-down menu. Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (recommended). 6. Enter the names you want for each of the partitions on the external drive 7. Click on the Options button. 8. Select the type of partition you want to use: Apple Partition Map - for bootability on PowerPC-based Macs 9. Click OK. 10. Click the Apply button. 11. Then Click Partition Cheers, Ronni On 02/04/2012, at 6:05 PM, Merv Bond wrote: We have an iMac Power PC G5 running OS X 10.4.11. It has two Firewire ports, both 400. HD capacity approx 500 GB. I am searching for a like capacity portable HD with a firewire port but these days most of the devices are at least 1TB and only occasionally do they have a 400 port - obviously superseded. However, if I purchase a 1TB HD, with a 400 Firewire port, can I partition it so that half of the disk is a viable bootable HD for the G5? Your advice appreciated. Merv -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Portable HD Firewire 400
Hi Ronni and James Thank you for your responses and your ten step process Ronni. If possible I will now purchase a HD with a firewire 400 port. Regards Merv On 3/04/12 8:55 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Merv, To create a Bootable external drive for your Power PC you need to format the drive, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and Partition it 'Apple Partition Map’ 1. Make sure to copy any files on your external hard disk to another location because reformatting will erase them. 2. Click on your computer hard disk’s icon. Select Applications → Utilities → Disk Utility. 3. In Disk Utility's left hand column, click on the Drive icon of your External Drive. Make sure you click on the first icon, not the second level volume icon. 4. Select the Partition tab. 5. Select the Volume Scheme ( select 2 Partitions); and Format type from the Format drop-down menu. Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (recommended). 6. Enter the names you want for each of the partitions on the external drive 7. Click on the Options button. 8. Select the type of partition you want to use: Apple Partition Map - for bootability on PowerPC-based Macs 9. Click OK. 10. Click the Apply button. 11. Then Click Partition Cheers, Ronni On 02/04/2012, at 6:05 PM, Merv Bond wrote: We have an iMac Power PC G5 running OS X 10.4.11. It has two Firewire ports, both 400. HD capacity approx 500 GB. I am searching for a like capacity portable HD with a firewire port but these days most of the devices are at least 1TB and only occasionally do they have a 400 port - obviously superseded. However, if I purchase a 1TB HD, with a 400 Firewire port, can I partition it so that half of the disk is a viable bootable HD for the G5? Your advice appreciated. Merv -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe -http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The whole psychology of modern disquiet is linked with the sudden confrontation with space-time. (Teilhard de Chardin, 'The Phenomenon of Man') -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
