I just got an external CD writer with a firewire (400) connection. I
got it for the firewire, not for the CD, so I opened it up and
installed a hard drive in place of the CD drive, and set the jumper to
master, which was how the CD drive was set.
The CD worked all right, but the hard drive
Try changing the jumpers for now...until someone else says something. By
the way that approach only work sometimes.
Paul wrote:
I just got an external CD writer with a firewire (400) connection. I
got it for the firewire, not for the CD, so I opened it up and
installed a hard drive in place
I would start by seeing whether the device is detected.
Does it show up in DIsk Utility?
If so, can you see the disk?
If you can, you may need to reformat the disk; if not play with
jumpers and any other settings you can find.
If it does not show up in DU, open System Profiler and look at
The drives I uses are all well under 128 GB, and they work OK if I
install them internally in the G4. I'll check to see if Disk Utility
and System Profiler show the drive.
Ideally, I'd use this external case with drives in both Mac and PC
formats.
did some fiddlin like that with a ata 33 cdburner - never worked - sadly ...
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2009/3/6 Paul pper...@gmail.com
The drives I uses are all well under 128 GB, and they work OK if I
install them internally in the G4. I'll check to see if Disk Utility
and System Profiler show the drive.
