On Mar 21, 2010, at 11:10 AM, iJohn wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:02 PM, John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: >> I removed the drive and put it in an external enclosure an connected it >> to my PM G5 Dual 2.7 and it functioned properly except I can't verify >> S.M.A.R.T. because its IDE and the G5 is SATA. > > Most likely the reason you can not access the S.M.A.R.T. data has > nothing to do with IDE versus SATA but is a consequence of using an > external enclosure. > > (FWIW, I'm not sure what you meant by the above. Are you implying that > the hard drive you are having problems with is a PATA drive? If that's > true and your G5 is SATA, then how were you using the drive in your > G5?) The drive is PATA I put it in an external enclosure to be able to run Drive Genius 2, Disk Utility and DiskWarrior on it connected to the G5 PM via Firewire because the G4 MDD chokes on the drive. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA
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