[G4] hard drives

[Robert H.Baucom]

Mac User since 1986, I no longer buy anything but Seagate, Maxtor or 
LaCie. However, IBM hard drives was bought out by Hitachi and they seem 
to be ok. Way back when I was buying the computers for the machines 
that sort the mail, Maxtor drives were the leading edge of technology 
and therefore problematic. I've since bought two External Maxtors - 500 
and 750 GB - and they have worked great. IMO, Western Digital seems to 
be on a  level with Packard Bell PeeSee's. Have had flawles service 
from Seagates. Life has once again become wonderful since USB replaced 
SCSI.
RHB

On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:12 AM, Aaron wrote:

> There have been so many posts in this thread that I may have missed 
> something relevant to this, but:
>
> Do you have a FireWire external drive that you can try booting from?* 
> Or a FireWire-to-IDE adapter you can use with the Maxtor drive? If you 
> do, you may want to try booting from an external drive without any 
> internal drives connected to see what happens, in case there's a 
> problem with the internal IDE bus. (You can also try a different IDE 
> cable, if you haven't done so already.)
>
>  - Aaron
>
> * Most FireWire (but not USB) drives are bootable with the PPC Macs, 
> but NOT most of the Western Digital MyBook models -- even those they 
> recommend for the Mac! And, although I've had no problems using a 
> MyBook Premium Edition drive as my startup disk, the other two MyBook 
> drives I've used (neither of which will boot the PPC despite having 
> FireWire connectivity) have been problematic at best. So, while WD 
> internal drives are fine, I strongly advise against their MyBook 
> external drives.
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