[G4] WD HD

Thu May 15 08:25:25 PDT 2003

Hey,
    Well, if all else fails, read the directions, right? OK, not quite 
that simple, but I finally went to Western Digital and they had a piece 
of firmware for me to download and install in my G4. It seems to have 
done the trick but I am now trying to backup with CCC again. I'll let 
you know how it comes out.
    Thanks for all of the replies.

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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