[G4] External firewire hard drives.

[Bill Scott]

What OS are you running on the G5?  Many external hard drives require OS
10.4 (Tiger) or newer.

on 12/28/08 7:44 PM, Pat Crowe at crowesnest at aapt.net.au wrote:

> I have two LaCie 250gb external firewire hard drives.
> Both spin up when power is applied but neither show up on the Desktop
> of my iMac G5. I have tried with two different firewire cables.
> Referring to the Internet, it seems that many people have the same
> trouble with external hard drives. This doesn't add up to me. What is
> so difficult? Should be a simple plug and play situation.
> Meanwhile, as neither drive is recognised, I am unable to apply any
> testing or updating to them. Seems like a lost cause.
> 
> 
> iMac 20" G5, 2gb RAM, 250gb HDD.
> 
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