[MacDV] new hard drives

[Jeff Fay]

lloyds wrote:

>1) Into a Dual 1 GHz G4, I've just installed a Maxtor 6Y200P0 200 gig
>hard drive.  It came with no software or instructions except on the case
>it showed the jumper connections to make it the slave, which I did.  It
>is sitting on top of the original hard drive, which uses the black plug
>at the end of the cable. the new drive uses the gray plug, in the middle
>of the cable.  The new drive is not recognized (no icon on the desktop,
>no mention in the system profiler).  Is there some trick I've missed?
>Do I need an ultra ATA card? (The manual says that the computer
>supports: "ATA devices, including ATA, ATA-2, ATA-3 up to ATA-6 devices;
>Ultra ATA devices; Ultra-66 ATA devices" -- and some other SCSI stuff).
>
Have you gone to Drive Setup (OS9) or Disk Utility (OS X) to see if the 
drive shows up there? If it does, erase/format the disk. That should 
solve the problem.

>
>2) I also have a Western Digital WD1200JBRTL 120 gig internal hard
>drive, and would like to put it into an enclosure and hook it to the
>same computer.  I've never done this, so I don't know the details.  Is
>it possible?  Does an enclosure make the transition from a forty-pin
>plug to a firewire cable?  Who's a good enclosure dealer?  The last one
>mentioned on the list that I saved was www.fwdepot.com, but it froze my
>computer when I tried it!
>
I have two Firewire drives that started out as Western Digital Firewire 
drives. The WD enclosure and Firewire bridge died within about a year on 
both of them. The drive inside was fine; just the bridge died. Since 
then I've had good luck with WeibeTech Desktop GB USB/Firewire drive 
enclosures. They've got a simple case to gain access to and a fan. And 
they'll work with either USB or Firewire. Whatever you get, make sure it 
uses the Oxford 911 firewire bridge.

>
>3) After all that hooha about the Pioneer DRC-105, I bought one, but
>when I look inside to figure out how to remove the existing superdrive,
>the task looks formidable.  Kunga seemed to think that it's easy.  I've
>searched Google for instructions with pictures with no luck.  Any
>suggestions?
>
>tia
>
>BobLL
>
>
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