[G4] eSATA external drive fails to mount ?

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings,

Hi I'm a little late to this discussion, however I had a similar problem.
I was using a BYTECC external "Super Speed USB 3.0 - 2.5 SATA External Hard Disk" case with a 320Gb drive. I purchased a 1Gb 2.5" drive that I wanted to install in my Mac mini, so when it arrived I pulled out the 320Gb 2.5" drive and installed the 1Gb.

To my surprise it didn't boot. I looked like I had received a BAD drive. Checking with "NewEgg" they suggested that I try a different external drive case. Well sure enough it was the external drive case. The guts of the BYTECC couldn't read the 1Gb drive.

Formated the drive, installed OS X 10.8.5 and installed into the Mac mini.

This may not be your problem, however you might want to look into a different external case. The one I got for less than $20.00 is a NexStar®TX 2.5" SATA Hard Drive Enclosure.

Cheers

Harry
San Jose, Ca

On Oct 22, 2013, at 2:56 PM, Jon <oregon5949 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I have a G4 450 with a 1.5 ghz Sonnet processor.
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> I have a eSATA card, plug and play for macintosh.
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> I have an external eSATA hard drive.
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> The drive is not being recognized.  It has a clean os 10.5.0 on one partition and 10.3.9 on the other.
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> Any ideas why or what I might try to make this work?
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> It works just fine with FW800 connections.
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> Thanks.
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> jonny
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