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
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
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