I'm actually having a simlar promblem. I have this 30 GB Maxtor HDD Which I know will work with Macs, but I just can't get it to show up in Mac once I boot off the CD, I know it's a Cable Select or Master / Slave setting which is off, But I cannot figure out which is which. So I'm trying to figure out what other options I have. Can't I just take off the switch where it is sets the drive to Master or whatever.?? It needs two switchs in order to be set to master and I only have one so I'm stuck here but I can get another switch anyways here is how it is set out the pin... I dont know the specs on the Drive but if anyone has a idea... Please let me know.. Thanks... Pin layout :
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Thanks again,
Jason
From: Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: G3AIO ( was: OS 10.3 literature) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:27:47 -0700
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, at 04:32 AM, Danielle wrote:
Hi All,
I think there was another person on this list that had the same problem as me but a different machine. I hope my found answer helps someone.
Well the mystery of the HD that wouldn't mount is no longer a mystery.
When I bought the HD, I had asked which HD would fit in my machine. They told me "All of them". So I picked one and had them (CompUSA) install it.
After a couple times it did not work and I could not figure it out and they would not look at it without charging me; even though it was less than 1 year since purchase.
That was wrong. They did the work, they should have at least looked at it.
Anyway, yesterday, we took it to the new Apple store here. They determined that the HD was incompatible with the G3AIO. They set it up so that I could copy needed stuff from the old HD, transfered it to their old HD that they had from part, and installed it in the G3 for $0. I traded them the perfectly good incompatible HD for one they had had from parts. Fair deal. G3 forks great now.
Ouch, you got ripped off, bigtime by that Apple store.
An IDE drive is an IDE drive is an IDE drive. CompUSA was right in that respect, there is no such thing as an 'incompatible' one.
You *may* have been sold a drive > 120 GB, in which case your AIO would only see the first 132 GB of it, but if it was at all smaller, it should have worked fine. What the Apple store did, in that case, was trade you a used smaller drive for your used larger one.
If the drive was smaller than 120 GB, then the problem was entirely either a messed up cable, or messed up jumper settings, not the drive.
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