[G4] Newcomer to G4 - query on hard disks

[Tony Gamble]

On 23-Dec-05, at 9:03 PM, Richard H. Blount wrote:

> It just sits there... Mocking me....
>

I so love that line. :)

> I surmise that I have all the wrong speeds or something drives.  
> Admittedly
> the drives are older. One is a Maxtor 5T040HD (40g) and the other is a
> Western Digital Caviar 26400. Probably both are too slow. B&W has  
> no trouble
> seeing, reading and writing to these drives. Is the newer machine  
> that much
> different?

I'm afraid I don't have any solid answers for you, but for what it's  
worth,
I've had an old 6Gb Seagate in my G4/MDD, on both the ATA100 bus and the
ATA66 bus, and it seemed to work just fine.  Wonder if there might be  
something
wonky with your Primary IDE Controller?  I'm sorry, I can't recall,  
but did you say
you reset the PMU (Power Management Unit)?

Just a thought,
	Tony