On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Norm Rowe <nrow...@roadrunner.com> wrote: > External Hard drive has the ability to use Firewire or USB 2. I was using > the firewire connection to use as a start up disk if needed. I was told by > this group that this would not work on my PPC G4 mac so I changed to the USB > 2 cable and the disk shows only 32 gig of storage where the firewire shows > 232 gigs. I have tried Disk Utilities on it to no avail. What is going on > and how do I fix it.
Never ran into something like that so all I have are questions. I can't come up with a scenario for how this could happen, so I'll be as interested as you to see what the others might suggest. Have you tried using both interfaces of this external drive on another system just to be sure that the problem is in fact in the external hard drive and not your G4 Mac? (Doesn't have to be a system you own, just one you could "borrow" to run a quicko sanity check test on.) Is it a Western Digital external drive or a Western Digital drive in a 3'rd party external enclosure? Just trying to understand the context. -irrational john --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
