[CUBE] Hard drive help please!

[Brooks Graham]

Ummm, did you initialize the drive with Disk Utility? (sorry if that's 
a silly question, but ya never know)

-bdg

On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 03:28  PM, Meirion Roscoe wrote:

> OK. the story so far.
>
> I bought my spangly Western digital 120Gb, 8MB cache hard drive.
>
> Cloned my existing standard drive using CCCloner (Amazingly efficient 
> app) onto a slilmine portable firewire drive
>
> Whipped out my old hard drive and installed the new one (fits as snug 
> as a bug) as per the PDF on the Apple website.
>
>
> Problems:
>
> Initially without the firewire drive connected, all I got was a small 
> folder symbol with an alternating smily face/question mark on start up
>
> After booting from the firewire drive, everything runs perfectly, but 
> when I try and clone the firewire drive to my 120GB hard drive, it 
> doesn't show the internal drive as a target option.
>
> I've looked in the Disk utility section and it recognizes it and says 
> it is set to master .
>
> I remember a faff with the jumper settings so I have tried it with the 
> 'CS setting it came with.  'Slave' and 'Master'.  At the moment it is 
> set in the top row between pins 2 and 3 from the left.   (Upper slave 
> and upper master, I think) as that is what the drive I took out had 
> the jumper set to.
>
> Can anyone please help or think of a way of getting the beast to 
> recognize the new drive properly?
>
> I'm off for a shower to mop my fevered brow.  Back in 30 mins
>
>
> Thank you all
>
> Rossi