24 iMac = old time drive-in movie theater
Get a USB drive adapter and try connecting the bare drive to your iMac,
http://www.newertech.com/products/usb2_adaptv2.php. Find one discounted
at macsales.com or provantage.com. Or get a Thermaltake or Startech USB
HD dock if you have SATA drives.
Thanks, but I guess my question kind of still dangles out there. They
are SATA drives that came out of earlier iMacs. With this external
Antec it shows up on the laptops, but not on the new iMac. I'm just
wondering why. The whole reason for buying the thing was to make
transferring old
Which USB port are you plugging the external enclosure into? It might
be a low-power port that can't power the disks.
At 7:05 PM -0700 6/11/09, Jeff Miles wrote:
Thanks, but I guess my question kind of still dangles out
there. They are SATA drives that came out of earlier iMacs. With
this
Well dang, that was it. I didn't know there was a difference. Of
course in my excitement over getting the new computer and setting it
up, I didn't bother reading the book.
Jeff M
On Jun 11, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Roger D. Parish wrote:
Which USB port are you plugging the external enclosure
On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Jeff Miles wrote:
Well dang, that was it. I didn't know there was a difference. Of
course in my excitement over getting the new computer and setting it
up, I didn't bother reading the book.
I really hate it when I have to connect via USB instead of FireWire.
You plugged it into the keyboard? an unpowerd hub? HAHAHAHAHA! Dang!
Try a powered hub, http://tinyurl.com/lp8ydu.
Well dang, that was it. I didn't know there was a difference. Of course in
my excitement over getting the new computer and setting it up, I didn't bother
reading the book.
No, I had the keyboard plugged into the first USB slot. I had the
external plugged into the 3rd slot. I switched them and now everything
is working fine. The mouse is the only thing I have plugged into the
keyboard USB slots. By the way, this small little keyboard is a pain
in the butt. I
