Re: Pismo and newer drives

So it seems that enough of us have had success with ATA6 large capacity drives from various manufacturers. Seems to me that problems are spurious (the list member's experience during exhaustive tests notwithstanding - is testing hardware your job?) and therefore possibly due to manufactuering defe

Re: Pismo and newer drives

On Nov 5, 2005, at 3:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife has a 400mhz Pismo with a 60gb Samsung MP0603H drive that has worked just fine since the first day we put it in. Neither the Samsung 40 GB nor the Samsung 60 GB would work in my Lombard nor Pismo, during my exhaustive tests of lar

Re: Pismo and newer drives

>> The current Samsung, Hitachi/IBM and Toshiba high-capacity drives are >> known not to work with Lombard and Pismo 'books. >My wife has a 400mhz Pismo with a 60gb Samsung MP0603H drive that has >worked just fine since the first day we put it in. Neither the Samsung 40 GB nor the Samsung 60 G

Re: Pismo and newer drives

On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current Samsung, Hitachi/IBM and Toshiba high-capacity drives are known not to work with Lombard and Pismo 'books. My wife has a 400mhz Pismo with a 60gb Samsung MP0603H drive that has worked just fine since the first day we put it i

Re: Pismo and newer drives

On Nov 4, 2005, at 5:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a Seagate Momentus 40 gig 5400 RPM/8 MB cache from Macgurus and it works fine on my Lombard. Good to know. I put in an 80 gig 5400 Seagate in my Pismo, and so far it's quiet and works fine. The Momentus drives are almost

Re: Pismo and newer drives

On Nov 4, 2005, at 5:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a Seagate Momentus 40 gig 5400 RPM/8 MB cache from Macgurus and it works fine on my Lombard. Good to know. I put in an 80 gig 5400 Seagate in my Pismo, and so far it's quiet and works fine. -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Pismo and newer drives

>I just bought a Seagate Momentus 40 gig 5400 RPM/8 MB cache from >Macgurus and it works fine on my Lombard. Good to know. So far, late Hitachi/IBMs, late Toshibas, and all Samsungs are known not to work with Lombards and Pismos, even if these very drives will work in PBs earlier than Lombard

Re: Pismo and newer drives

>People have written that some newer drives (ATA6) are not compatible with the Pismo. What is the symptom of these drives when they don't negotiatid to ATA5? No devices on the ATA bus will work ... at all! You cannot boot from the CD/DVD, even if that CD/DVD contains a system installer, or ev

Re: Pismo and newer drives

I have a 400 MHz Pismo (576 MB RAM - OS 10.4.3) and replaced the original 6 GB with a Travelstar 40 GB, ATA6 back in July of this year. Bought from OWC. No issues to date, runs quiet and fast. The original drive was fairly noisy and died the day the new drive arrived - talk about timing! Barry

Re: Pismo and newer drives

>People have written that some newer drives (ATA6) are not compatible >with the Pismo. What is the symptom of these drives when they don't >negotiatid to ATA5? No devices on the ATA bus will work ... at all! You cannot boot from the CD/DVD, even if that CD/DVD contains a system installer, or

Pismo and newer drives

Hello, People have written that some newer drives (ATA6) are not compatible with the Pismo. What is the symptom of these drives when they don't negotiatid to ATA5? Thanks. -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished