[CUBE] Hard drive help please!

[Meirion Roscoe]

It doesn't let me select the drive except for partitioning.  Something 
strange going on here.  Oh to answer your question, no I didn't! Oops.


On Wednesday, Mar 5, 2003, at 21:32 Europe/London, Brooks Graham wrote:

> 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
>
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