he larger one is the power cable however it's just as easy to
misconnect both. Look real close also I've damaged the cables by
pulling them the wrong way.
Can one start a G5 open just to hear if the drive starts at all?
A
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On Dec 1, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Gottick International wrote:
Can one start a G5 open just to hear if the drive starts at all?
If you can find the lid switch and trick it to think the lid is on,
then perhaps, but the G5 fans are pretty noisy and most modern HDs are
pretty quiet, so you might
On Nov 29, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Gottick International wrote:
Back again. Trying get a new 500 GIG Caviar WD5000AA to work on a G5
20-inch 1.8 Ghz machine. The
cables look ok. What can I do now to locate the problem?
Anders
Are you sure the power cable is connected correctly. It's easy to
Back again. Trying get a new 500 GIG Caviar WD5000AA to work on a G5
20-inch 1.8 Ghz machine. The Machine starts fine on a install CD but
neither the installer or Disc Utility can even find the new drive.
The drive has been tested on another Mac and had been formated ok.
The
cables look ok.
On Nov 29, 2010, at 7:51 AM, Gottick International wrote:
Back again. Trying get a new 500 GIG Caviar WD5000AA to work on a G5
20-inch 1.8 Ghz machine. The Machine starts fine on a install CD but
neither the installer or Disc Utility can even find the new drive.
The drive has been tested on
Back again. Trying get a new 500 GIG Caviar WD5000AA to work on a G5
20-inch 1.8 Ghz machine. The Machine starts fine on a install CD but
neither the installer or Disc Utility can even find the new drive.
The drive has been tested on another Mac and had been formated ok. The
cables look ok. What
On Nov 28, 2010, at 12:40 PM, AndersFager wrote:
Back again. Trying get a new 500 GIG Caviar WD5000AA to work on a G5
20-inch 1.8 Ghz machine. The Machine starts fine on a install CD but
neither the installer or Disc Utility can even find the new drive.
The drive has been tested on another Mac
On Nov 28, 2010, at 10:40 AM, AndersFager wrote:
Back again. Trying get a new 500 GIG Caviar WD5000AA to work on a G5
20-inch 1.8 Ghz machine. The Machine starts fine on a install CD but
neither the installer or Disc Utility can even find the new drive.
The drive has been tested on another
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Gottick International i...@gottick.com wrote:
The old one had a jumper. ;-) And I put it in the same spot on the new drive.
Not sure if there ever was a resolution to this or not and I'm curious.
As was previously pointed out, just copying the jumper settings
The old one had a jumper. ;-) And I put it in the same spot on the
new drive.
Not sure if there ever was a resolution to this or not and I'm
curious.
As was previously pointed out, just copying the jumper settings from
an old drive to a new one is not a good way to go. Did you try
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Gottick International i...@gottick.com wrote:
By all the experts here putting jumpers on this drive is not the way to go.
At least I was told so.
I would agree with that. As was also previously mentioned, the main
reason for the jumper was because during the
On Nov 2, 2:05 pm, Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com
wrote:
I've never liked Western Digital's stuff, I had a round of lemons from
them back in the 90s.
Every drive manufacturer sells a round of lemons at some point.
Maxtor made some 120 MB (that's MB, not GB) drives that failed
On 2010/11/03 09:17, t...@io.com so eloquently wrote:
I tend to stick with Seagate these days. Their five year warranty
won't save my data, but it means they have more motivation to put
effort into quality control than a company offering a three year
warranty.
The last time I looked,
What ill save data is backing data on an external (or internal second HD) at
least once a month. Using CCC is a cinch to do that and usual takes a very
short time.
Mel
--- On Wed, 11/3/10, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Dead Drive? - Group
OK - this drive has jumpers. As had the old one. In a iMac G5. What
about jumper settings?
On SATA drives the jumpers generally aren't used.
The old one had a jumper. ;-) And I put it in the same spot on the new
drive. Can anyone give me a definitive on this? Does using a jumper in
the
Perhaps you can give us the make and model number of the drive in
question, we can pull the specifications. :)
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On Nov 2, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Gottick International wrote:
On SATA drives the jumpers generally aren't used.
The old one had a jumper. ;-) And I put it in the same spot on the
new drive. Can anyone give me a definitive on this? Does using a
jumper in the wrong slot shut down the whole
Gottick International wrote:
OK - this drive has jumpers. As had the old one. In a iMac G5. What
about jumper settings?
On SATA drives the jumpers generally aren't used.
The old one had a jumper. ;-) And I put it in the same spot on the new
drive. Can anyone give me a definitive on this?
Perhaps you can give us the make and model number of the drive in
question, we can pull the specifications. :)
Sorry.
WD Caviar WD5000AADS - 500GB
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Looks like there shouldn't be any jumpers on it, the jumpers force a
lower transfer speed.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1679p_created=p_pv=2.294p_prods=227%2C294
I've never liked Western Digital's stuff, I had a round of lemons from
them back in the
On 2010/11/02 11:55, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote:
The jumper on a SATA drive restricts it to 1.5Gbs (SATA 1) speed. It
won't have any other effect.
What would be the purpose of even doing this? I have 3GBs drives in my P
M and it only supports 1.5GBs, so the end result is they do not exceed
Older controller chipsets had problems when it initially moved to SATA
gen II, so some drives had the ability to force negotiation at
1.5Gbps.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 15:46, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2010/11/02 11:55, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote:
The jumper on a SATA drive
OK - this drive has jumpers. As had the old one. In a iMac G5. What
about jumper settings?
OK. That solves that probem. ;-) Any other idea? Can the drive be
too big for the machine to handle?
Probably not. How about the cable ... is that new? a good one?
Connected well at both ends ...
On Nov 1, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Gottick International wrote:
OK - this drive has jumpers. As had the old one. In a iMac G5. What
about jumper settings?
On SATA drives the jumpers generally aren't used.
Cable looks fine. Conects well. Can one test it in one way or another?
I've wondered about
On Nov 1, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Gottick International wrote:
I have an old, unbreakable, Quicksilver nearby. Can I try out a 500
gig serial ATA disc on that old warhorse?
T
Not unless you have a PATA to SATA adapter or a SATA PCI card installed.
I have a SeriTek/1S2 PCI card in my QS 2002
Folks,
Installed a brand new 500 gig hd in a G5 iMac. The old one had
issues. For reasons unknown Disc Utility has problems even formating
the damned thing. And refuses to partion it. Disc Warrior does not
even see the new drive. What can be wrong? The machine has a new
battery and from what I
Jumper issue?
On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:04 AM, AndersFager wrote:
Folks,
Installed a brand new 500 gig hd in a G5 iMac. The old one had
issues. For reasons unknown Disc Utility has problems even formating
the damned thing. And refuses to partion it. Disc Warrior does not
even see the new
No idea what you are talking about. Please tell me.
Jumper issue?
On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:04 AM, AndersFager wrote:
Folks,
Installed a brand new 500 gig hd in a G5 iMac. The old one had
issues. For reasons unknown Disc Utility has problems even
formating
the damned thing. And refuses to
The G5 iMac's have sata drives no jumpers on them. Jeff
On Oct 31, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Gottick International wrote:
No idea what you are talking about. Please tell me.
Jumper issue?
On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:04 AM, AndersFager wrote:
Folks,
Installed a brand new 500 gig hd in a G5 iMac.
OK. That solves that probem. ;-) Any other idea? Can the drive be too
big for the machine to handle?
The G5 iMac's have sata drives no jumpers on them. Jeff
On Oct 31, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Gottick International wrote:
No idea what you are talking about. Please tell me.
Jumper issue?
On
On Oct 31, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Gottick International wrote:
No idea what you are talking about. Please tell me.
Jumper issue?
On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:04 AM, AndersFager wrote:
The iMac G5's are sATA so the jumpers are not an issue here.
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
Sent from my MBP
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nope I have a 500gb in mine. with no problems:-) Jeff
On Oct 31, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Gottick International wrote:
OK. That solves that probem. ;-) Any other idea? Can the drive be too big for
the machine to handle?
The G5 iMac's have sata drives no jumpers on them. Jeff
On Oct 31, 2010,
On Oct 31, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Gottick International wrote:
OK. That solves that probem. ;-) Any other idea? Can the drive be
too big for the machine to handle?
Probably not. How about the cable ... is that new? a good one?
Connected well at both ends ... didn't come loose when the machine
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:04 AM, AndersFager i...@gottick.com wrote:
Installed a brand new 500 gig hd in a G5 iMac. The old one had
issues.
Without having any idea whether or not any of them might apply here
are some things that come to mind:
1) The old drive didn't really have issues. Rather
Folks,
Installed a brand new 500 gig hd in a G5 iMac. The old one had
issues. For reasons unknown Disc Utility has problems even
formating
the damned thing. And refuses to partion it. Disc Warrior does
not
even see the new drive. What can be wrong? The machine has a
new
battery and
On Oct 31, 2010, at 5:04 AM, AndersFager wrote:
Folks,
Installed a brand new 500 gig hd in a G5 iMac. The old one had
issues. For reasons unknown Disc Utility has problems even formating
the damned thing. And refuses to partion it. Disc Warrior does not
even see the new drive. What can be
I would double check that you are formatting it right??? This happened to me
once but it was with a PATA drive...
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From: AndersFager i...@gottick.com
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Subject: Dead Drive?
Folks,
Installed a brand
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Subject: Dead Drive?
Folks,
Installed a brand new 500 gig hd in a G5 iMac. The old one had
issues. For reasons unknown Disc Utility has problems even
formating
the damned thing. And refuses to partion it. Disc Warrior does not
even see the new drive. What can be wrong
On 10/31/10 8:04 AM, AndersFager wrote:
Folks,
Installed a brand new 500 gig hd in a G5 iMac. The old one had
issues. For reasons unknown Disc Utility has problems even formating
the damned thing. And refuses to partion it. Disc Warrior does not
even see the new drive. What can be wrong? The
Greetings,
If your Disk Utilities can see the new disk, select the disk and click
on info and tell us what it says!
If you are able to see and select the drive then use erase before
trying to partition the disk!
If that doesn't work then tell us the exact system response,
Cheers
Harry
San Jose,
Try hooking it up to another computer or hook it up through an external
case.
-Jonas
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