[MacDV] Re Western Digital hardrive Unsupported

[Kunga]

Well in that case, Animal should call WD tech support and make 
arrangements to swap out his bad drive for a new one. The are fully 
replaceable for 3 years for no charge. FREE. Do it animal!

k

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 05:58  PM, Bill Freeman wrote:

> 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.