Re Western Digital hardrive Unsupported

[Bill Freeman]

>From: Thubten Kunga <Kunga at FutureMedia.org>
>
>
>I think his system is defective. He is trying to look with 9.0.4. I'd
>be willing to bet that if he simply runs his system updater
>(REPEATEDLY) until it won't run any more and then runs the latest drive
>setup, that he will see the WD 120 just fine. He's trying to initialize
>a new drive with an OLD CRAPPY SYSTEM.

Animal stated there were "constant problems" with the drive even 
before he put it in the firewire case.  If it didn't work right on 
his IDE bus it's not likely to start working any better in a firewire 
case.  OS 8.6 supposedly had Firewire support but I had to install an 
init from "Heat Utilities" to see my firewire drives while in OS 8.6. 
I agree that upgrading the OS from 9.0.4 to 9.2.2 might help some, 
but it can't fix a defective drive.

>I had a 120GB 7200 Western Digital hard drive in my G4 with 3
>partitions and took it out due to constant problems.  After replacing
>it with an IBM/Hitachi all is well again.
>
>Now I have the Western Digital in an external firewire case - but my G4
>(system 9.04) won't recognize it under system profiler or drive setup.