[G4] WD HD

Tue May 13 13:27:51 PDT 2003

Mike,
    I can boot to 9.2.2. Maybe I'll have to go this route, but I'm not 
anxious to try. I'll get more serious with Western Digital first. Maybe 
I'm naive, but it seems I should be able to plug the thing and use it.
Thanks,
Jim
On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 04:06  AM, Michael L. Brown wrote:

> Jim, I had a similar problem with a 120 Gig Western Digital HD in an 
> ADS Firewire/USB2 enclosure. Messing around in OS 10.2.6 trying to 
> partition the drive, I managed to "lose" all but 32 Gigs of disk 
> space. I went through all the shenanigans below, but finally pulled 
> the drive out of the enclosure and connected it up inside my G4 
> Sawtooth as a slave drive and reformatted it with Hard Disk Tool Kit 
> 3.5 in OS 9.2.1. Magically the drive popped back up to the 117 odd 
> Gigs that it originally had. I then put everything back the way it was 
> and backed up all my drives (two SCSI partitions and one IDE) to the 
> Firewire external using Retrospect Express 5.
> Can you boot your G4 933 in OS 9. If so, the above route is the way to 
> go.
>
> Mike
>
>> From: Jim Reamer <jna1322 at mac.com>
>> Date: Sat May 10, 2003  3:44:20  PM US/Eastern
>> To: "Power Macintosh G4 List" <G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: Re: [G4] WD HD
>>
>> Brian,
>>    Thanks for the reply.
>>    While I do get the drive to show up on Apple Profiler, it does not 
>> show up on Disk Utility, greyed out or otherwise.
>>
>>    Well, I just tried again to no avail so I unplugged and replugged. 
>> Two of my three partitions mounted. The third was described as 
>> "unknown" and a message said it would not mount. This is the one I 
>> had my main drive backed up on using CCC. Then I rechecked Disk 
>> Utility and now all three are there with "Backup" (unknown) greyed 
>> out. So I used DiskFirst Aid to repair the drive (partition).  The 
>> phrase "Keys out of order" is the first sign of problem, followed by 
>> "Rebuilding Catalog B-tree". It's been going for 5 minutes with no 
>> sign of progress so we'll see.
>>    After 40 min. I stopped it.......Well, after some screwing around 
>> I  verified and repaired the partition.  It still wouldn't mount so I 
>> went to disc utility to follow your advice; highlight and mount from 
>> options.The color wheel came up when I clicked on the partition. It's 
>> still spinning. I can't even force quit.
>>    So whenever I try to work on the drive using Disk Utility the 
>> program locks up. I can still use the computer for certain jobs but 
>> the drive and Disk Utility is locked up.
>>    So even if I do get the drive to show up on Disk Utility, I still 
>> can't use it.
>>    Any more thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    Jim
>>
>> On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 05:23  PM, Brian Conner wrote:
>>
>>> Jim:
>>>
>>> I'll leave the CCC questions for others who have used it before. As 
>>> to your
>>> FW drive not showing on your desktop, usually if you will open Disk 
>>> Utility
>>> (I leave an alias on my desktop) you will see the drive grayed out. 
>>> Click on
>>> it to select it and choose Mount from the Options menu.
>>>
>>> Most of the time, this will do the trick.
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian Conner
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] 
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Kurt Appling
>>> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 11:22 AM
>>> To: Power Macintosh G4 List
>>> Subject: Re: [G4] WD HD
>>>
>>>
>>> RE; I too am open to suggestions, your description is quite normal to
>>> what I have had.although some difference to note,I am useing external
>>> firewire boxes that have seperate on off switches,also if I try 
>>> useing
>>> either external drive box alone I get your problems as well, however 
>>> if
>>> I daisy chain the two, then all is well they both show up fine,but as
>>> for system backup,I have CCC my main drive to each of the two back up
>>> drives,some things work others do not,I seem to loose a large amount 
>>> of
>>> data somewhere,the Icons for it are presant,but all the info is
>>> gone,its just like the folders are empty. so it may be something to 
>>> do
>>> with termination,but I really dont know much. best wishes
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 09:45 AM, Jim Reamer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 	I recently bought a WD 120gig firewire external hard drive. It 
>>>> seems
>>>> to be working fine, I have used CCC to backup the hard drive of my 
>>>> G4
>>>> 933 to the WD. However, the external doesn't show up on my desktop. 
>>>> If
>>>> I unplug it and plug it back in, then it will show. Otherwise 
>>>> nothing.
>>>> Also, it seems to run non-stop. Is that right? Any suggestions?
>
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