Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-07-11 Thread Mac User #330250
Original message from smac0031, 2015-05-31 04:34:
 I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 
 running 10.1.11.

 It's hooked up to a 133ATA card. I have 120GB boot drive and 300GB data 
 drive.

 The computer just hangs on boot-up. The optical drive does nothing. 
 Starting with the optical empty
 does nothing. The computer just hangs.

 It's had startup issues for some time.  It order to reboot it you have to 
 use the button on the front. Same
 for shutdown. I just let it run all the time.

 Looks like the giant 2TB is useless for this machine and I realize this 
 computer is 15 years old. Unless somebody
 has some ideas.

 Thanks
 Mark Murphy
Hello Mark!

I'm late, I know, but I just found this thread.
Maybe I missed it, but nobody mentioned block sizes. Newer drives tend
to be Advanced Format, meaning, each sector (physical block) on the
drive is not exactly 512 bytes anymore, but a multiple of that. Most
HDDs use a block size of 4096 bytes i.e. 4k.

The problem is that most older computers, firmwares and operating
systems really require this 512 bytes block size. That is why a lot of
HDDs with Advanced Format use emulation. Instead of reporting the true
block size of 4096, they will report 512, in which case you'd be safe
and could use the drive.

If, on the other hand, you purchased a drive without emulation, it will
report the native block size of 4096. This could have various effects,
including stalling the system completely.

You should read about Advanced Format on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format

Does your drive have an Advanced 4K Format or an Advanced 4Kn Format
logo? The later, with the letter n (4Kn versus just 4K) indicates
native mode, which will most likely cause problems.

You should get a drive with 512 byte block size emulation, i.e. one with
the Advanced 4K Format logo (without n for native – i.e. with an
invisible e for emulation ;-)).

Cheers,
Andreas  aka  Mac User #330250

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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-07-03 Thread Robert H . Baucom
Yes, I’m having the  same problem with my 2000 Quicksilver w/2001 Processor.
Using it Offline with all my financial Data on it.
Quicken 207
On May 30, 2015, at 9:34 PM, smac0031 m.smurph...@gmail.com wrote:

I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 running 
10.1.11.

It's hooked up to a 133ATA card. I have 120GB boot drive and 300GB data drive.

The computer just hangs on boot-up. The optical drive does nothing. Starting 
with the optical empty
does nothing. The computer just hangs.

It's had startup issues for some time.  It order to reboot it you have to use 
the button on the front. Same
for shutdown. I just let it run all the time.

Looks like the giant 2TB is useless for this machine and I realize this 
computer is 15 years old. Unless somebody
has some ideas.

Thanks
Mark Murphy

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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-06-05 Thread smac0031

I've done more testing. This new drive just sits in the computer dumb and 
gives no signal that it's there. Neither my DA G4 
or my G5 register it. It's nothing.
I tried running Drive Genius and it doesn't find anything there.

I put the 1TB Seagate in my G4 again and zapped the Pram a couple of times 
before starting up. This time it came up
and I didn't get a Kernel Panic. I was able to copy 280GB of files to it. 
I'm going to put it back in the G5. This new drive
is going back.

Thanks,
Mark


On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 10:34:16 PM UTC-4, smac0031 wrote:

 I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 
 running 10.1.11.

 It's hooked up to a 133ATA card. I have 120GB boot drive and 300GB data 
 drive.

 The computer just hangs on boot-up. The optical drive does nothing. 
 Starting with the optical empty
 does nothing. The computer just hangs.

 It's had startup issues for some time.  It order to reboot it you have to 
 use the button on the front. Same
 for shutdown. I just let it run all the time.

 Looks like the giant 2TB is useless for this machine and I realize this 
 computer is 15 years old. Unless somebody
 has some ideas.

 Thanks
 Mark Murphy


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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-06-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 4, 2015, at 6:16 PM, smac0031 m.smurph...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 I tried swapping 1TB seagate from my G5 into my DA G4 and the new drive into 
 the G5.
 
 The new drive would spin in the G5 and would not come up under Disk Utility.
 
 The Seagate came up in the G4 and after about a minute the G4 had a kernel 
 panic.
 
 I'm sending the new drive back. Weak link may be the sata pata adapter, but 
 that would not explain why the
 G5 couldn't see it.
 
 Thanks to everybody, I think I'm going to get an intel Mac, one that can play 
 with my iPhone 5c.
 
 Mark Murphy

Perhaps you’re not swapping hardware “correctly”?

When you’re changing hardware, you need to do two things:

1) zap the PRAM so the firmware reinitializes.

2) Safe Boot to ditch the old boot.cache and rebuild the kext.cache so the new 
kext configuration is present for the subsequent boot.

If you don’t at least Safe Boot once, you’re using the old boot.cache  
kext.cache, so it’s trying to boot with the old hardware configuration. This 
can often result in panic.

I don’t know what type of SATA adapter you’re using, but the best choice is 
usually a PCI card. Some cards have “special” firmware for some models of G4 
that have “known problems”.

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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-06-04 Thread peterhaas

 Thanks to everybody, I think I'm going to get an intel Mac ...

A very wise choice.

Flexibility and reliability of MacOS X improved dramatically after the
switch to an Intel platform.

10.4.8 was the more-or-less first instance which supported Intel. Alas,
the underlying Intel hardware was somewhat primitive, with most of the
function provided off-chip.

10.9.5 is exceptionally reliable, with almost all function provided on-chip.





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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-06-04 Thread smac0031
I tried swapping 1TB seagate from my G5 into my DA G4 and the new drive 
into the G5.

The new drive would spin in the G5 and would not come up under Disk Utility.

The Seagate came up in the G4 and after about a minute the G4 had a kernel 
panic.

I'm sending the new drive back. Weak link may be the sata pata adapter, but 
that would not explain why the
G5 couldn't see it.

Thanks to everybody, I think I'm going to get an intel Mac, one that can 
play with my iPhone 5c.

Mark Murphy


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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-06-01 Thread t...@prismnet.com


On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 9:34:16 PM UTC-5, smac0031 wrote:

 I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 
 running 10.1.11.

 It's had startup issues for some time.  It order to reboot it you have to 
 use the button on the front. Same
 for shutdown. I just let it run all the time.

 Looks like the giant 2TB is useless for this machine and I realize this 
 computer is 15 years old. Unless somebody
 has some ideas.


Does the PATA/SATA adapter have a jumper to set Master/Slave?   You could 
be having Master/Slave issues.

Jeff Walther
 

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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-06-01 Thread peterhaas

 Does the PATA/SATA adapter have a jumper to set Master/Slave?   You could
 be having Master/Slave issues.

The SATA to PATA (IDE) converter I have does, indeed, have a Master/Slave
jumper, but, alas, no position which is explicitly Cable Select.

The drives in BW G3 and later machines support Cable Select, and this is
the optimal choice for those machines.

Alas, the Mini from the same generation DOES NOT support Cable Select ...
the caddies are Master (the built-in hard drive, only) OR Slave (the
optical drive caddy) ... however, those caddies intended to support a
second HD in the place of the optical drive are Master and no jumper is
provided for Slave. Installing the caddy, as shipped, into a Mini will
result in failure to boot as a consequence of the presence of two Masters.
Depending upon the version of hard drive caddy, either soldering a jumper
will be required, or a special metric shunt (jumper) will be required. The
shunts which were shipped with some 2.5 PATA (IDE) drives is usually the
appropriate choice.



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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-06-01 Thread Kris Tilford

 On Jun 1, 2015, at 1:32 PM, t...@prismnet.com wrote:
 
 On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 9:34:16 PM UTC-5, smac0031 wrote:
 I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 running 
 10.1.11.
 
 It's had startup issues for some time.  It order to reboot it you have to use 
 the button on the front. Same
 for shutdown. I just let it run all the time.
 
 Looks like the giant 2TB is useless for this machine and I realize this 
 computer is 15 years old. Unless somebody
 has some ideas.
 
 Does the PATA/SATA adapter have a jumper to set Master/Slave?   You could be 
 having Master/Slave issues.

I’m not following this thread closely, so perhaps this isn’t right, but some of 
the early G4’s lacked LBA48 support for larger HDs in firmware. There was a 
patch to enable LBA48 support for bigger drives, but I think this was for 
models prior to the DA?

http://4thcode.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-128-gib-or-larger-ata-hard-drives.html

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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-06-01 Thread peterhaas

 I'm not following this thread closely, so perhaps this isn't right,
 but some of the early G4's lacked LBA48 support for larger HDs in
 firmware. There was a patch to enable LBA48 support for bigger drives, but
 I think this was for models prior to the DA?

 http://4thcode.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-128-gib-or-larger-ata-hard-drives.html

That IS the correct hack for LBA48.

There was a shorter one posted elsewhere, but the above-cited hack is the
one which ALWAYS worked for me.

The 1000 MHz Quicksivers supposedly came with the LBA48 property already
in O.F.

The 800 MHz Quicksilvers DID NOT.

The determining factor is the P/N of the Quicksilver MB. -A does not
have LBA48; -B does.

Any model after an 800 MHz Quicksilver should be assumed to support LBA48
OOTB.

One reason for the hack is it is to O.F. itself, so, therefore, it is
active at boot-time.

The Speedtools alternative only works after the extension has been
successfully loaded, so it is not available at boot-time.



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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-05-31 Thread Frank Dutra
FWIW, I have been using giant SATA drives for the last 5-6 years 
with my 2002 G4 Mystic, which is an earlier machine than the DA. I 
currently have a Seritek 1s2 pci SATA card (2 internal ports) with a 
2tb Seagate and a 3tb Western digital mounted above the optical drive 
slot. I have also used a 4 port seritek card that I abandoned due to 
intermittent sleep issues. I believe these both were SATA I cards, 
though I have the newer SATA II and III drives, which are supposed to 
be backward compatible, and were in my case.


If I recall, certain drives had issues with the chipsets in the pci 
cards, but most were compatible. The only problem I've had was 
formatting the WD 3 tb drive, which I did with an OWC Voyager 
external firewire/usb/sata box. (Disk utility only saw 2 tb, which I 
think is the systems upper limit, thus 2tb and 1 tb partitions were 
needed). I'm stuck with a pokey 100 bus, but have still have 
experienced a noticeable improvement in performance  with these large 
capacity Sata drives, much faster than using an external firewire box 
like the Voyager.







I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA 
G4 running 10.1.11.


It's hooked up to a 133ATA card. I have 120GB boot drive and 300GB data drive.

The computer just hangs on boot-up. The optical drive does nothing. 
Starting with the optical empty

does nothing. The computer just hangs.

It's had startup issues for some time.  It order to reboot it you 
have to use the button on the front. Same

for shutdown. I just let it run all the time.

Looks like the giant 2TB is useless for this machine and I realize 
this computer is 15 years old. Unless somebody

has some ideas.

Thanks
Mark Murphy

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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-05-31 Thread peterhaas

 Can the G4 address that much space?

Remember, the SCSI drives only have one parameter block for specifying the
LBA (but there are several parameter block formats).

Small/large IDE drives are accessed in this way:

1) Small drives have one parameter block, whereas

2) large drives use the same parameter block as small drives, for the
low-order 24 bits of the LBA, and a second parameter block for the
high-prder 24 bits of the LBA, for a total of 48 bits.

Should the drive receive just the first parameter block, then just the
first 131,072 MB will be accessed.

The drive temporarily waits for the second parameter block. If it is
received, then the two 24 bit values are concatenated into a 48 bit LBA,
and the access proceeds.

It is for this reason that large IDE drives which are connected to an
internal IDE port on a PPC Mac can only access 131,072 MB.

However, some PPC Macs can have the LBA48 property turned on, by using
certain special Open Firmware commands. This is what the Speedtools
product simulated using a plug-in extension. But such an extension was not
always required, if Open Firmware was employed to hack the LBA48 property.

See info in ...

http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/Interface%20manuals/100293068c.pdf

... starting at page 18.

SCSI drives, which is what ATA drives are modeled after in PCI cards for
Macs (and PCs), whenever a PCI card is employed for their access, have
several parameter blocks, with various bit counts associated with the
specification of the LBA, but only one such parameter block per access.





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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-05-31 Thread smac0031

I have 120 and a 300 in it right now. The 120 is the boot drive. I have a 
lot of video files that are filling up the 120. Will a 500GB pata work?

Mark Murphy


On Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 10:34:16 PM UTC-4, smac0031 wrote:

 I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4 
 running 10.1.11.

 It's hooked up to a 133ATA card. I have 120GB boot drive and 300GB data 
 drive.

 The computer just hangs on boot-up. The optical drive does nothing. 
 Starting with the optical empty
 does nothing. The computer just hangs.

 It's had startup issues for some time.  It order to reboot it you have to 
 use the button on the front. Same
 for shutdown. I just let it run all the time.

 Looks like the giant 2TB is useless for this machine and I realize this 
 computer is 15 years old. Unless somebody
 has some ideas.

 Thanks
 Mark Murphy


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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-05-31 Thread W.Adrian D'Alessio
Disconnect it and fix your problem. Then get a smaller drive.
Why encumber your trusty work horse with problems?

Balance is very valuable in a system.



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On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:34 PM, smac0031 m.smurph...@gmail.com wrote:

 I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA G4
 running 10.1.11.

 It's hooked up to a 133ATA card. I have 120GB boot drive and 300GB data
 drive.

 The computer just hangs on boot-up. The optical drive does nothing.
 Starting with the optical empty
 does nothing. The computer just hangs.

 It's had startup issues for some time.  It order to reboot it you have to
 use the button on the front. Same
 for shutdown. I just let it run all the time.

 Looks like the giant 2TB is useless for this machine and I realize this
 computer is 15 years old. Unless somebody
 has some ideas.

 Thanks
 Mark Murphy

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