[G4] IBM Deskstars in new G4's and organization (xpost)

[David Crandon]

Because it's only available on the last generation of Macs. Previous
generations don't support it.

David Crandon

"Wilkin, Wayne (Mass)" wrote:
> 
> Can I ask a stupid question?
> Why doens't everyone just use the "Cable Select" option for jumpers. With
> cable select you don't need to re-arrange jumpers or anything like that.
> Just seems easier.
> 
> > ----------
> > From:         David DelMonte
> > Reply To:     Power Macintosh G4 List
> > Sent:         Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:40 AM
> > To:   Power Macintosh G4 List
> > Subject:      Re: [G4] IBM Deskstars in new G4's and organization (xpost)
> >
> > Two thoughts.
> >
> > 1. Software, make sure that the hard drive sleep option is turned off
> > in the Energy Saver Preference panel,.
> >
> > 2. Hardware: look at the jumper switch settings on the back of the
> > drives. Compare that with the descriptions at:
> >
> > http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/jumpers.htm
> >
> > Note that Hitachi is the new owner and support source for IBM drives.
> >
> > I found that for slave drives, two jumpers should be set in the two
> > right hand vertical pairs.
> >
> > For the master drive, the rightmost vertical pair and the left most
> > vertical pair should be connected.
> >
> > Hope that helps
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Jim Robertson wrote:
> >
> > > On 1/14/03 7:49 PM, "diane" <diane at mathermotorsports.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Actually I noticed that with most of my drives in OSX. I  have drive
> > >> sleeping turned off yet they still snore away. Best part is when I
> > >> wake the machine up, everything is working fine, and then for some
> > >> reason a drive I don't need wakes up and slows things down for a
> > >> minute.
> > >
> > > YES!! (although in my case the beach ball spins perhaps 10 seconds
> > > while I
> > > wait for the napping hard drive)
> > >
> > > (If someone knows how to stop this disk drive dozing, could they post
> > > the
> > > cure?)
> > >
> > >
> > > Jim Robertson
> > > --
> > >
> > >
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