On Sep 20, 2008, at 9:09 PM, Doug Burton wrote:
> > > On Sep 20, 2008, at 3:06 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >> >> On Sep 19, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Doug Burton wrote: >> >>> >>> Reference this Bruce, I have a couple of these USB/IDE cables and >>> I've >>> yet to get one working on a Mac, or even my Hackintosh for that >>> matter. Haven't tried them with Windows yet. >> >> That's weird, I use the one we have all the time...it's an invaluable >> tool in our office. Coupled with the oprn source NTFS drivers I've >> been able to rescue data from NTFS drives Windows couldn't mount. >> >> -- >> Bruce Johnson > > In all fairness, the only ones I tried were the 40 Gb original HD from > the DA, which I know was corrupted and another HD I had laying > around. I never really tried a known good drive so that may have been > the problem. I do know the drive I have in one of my external cases > is USB and it works fine with my Macs. The kit from Geeks is > basically the same thing so it should work. I'm happy to report that the Geeks USB/ATA cable was successfully used to repair the original 40 Gb drive from the server. I put an extra HD tray I had laying around in a spare 5.25" external case I bought some time ago from Surplus Computer. The case has it's own PS and I used that plus the Geeks USB cable to connect to the USB port of my MDD. I put the 40 Gb drive in the tray and plugged that in. Fired up Disk Warrior and rebuilt the directory. Turns out the bad RAM must of corrupted the HD directory. The server is once again running with 512 Mb of RAM thanks to some new iData RAM from NewEgg. The 4-300 Gb SATA data drives have been mounted in an external case with it's own PS and fan, so things should stay much cooler in the DA case. Just a message from Doug... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
