Re: New IDE HD in 5300 A No

2002-06-27 Thread Charlie Reyes
Charlie, In the same vein, using one of these adapters, could I connect the laptop ide drive to my Mac with an ATA/66 IDE pci card and format it simply as Mac? Would this proposed interface be unknown territory or theoretically possible? Dave Sorry I was out the whole day yesterday (6/27) If

Re: New IDE HD in 5300 A No

2002-06-26 Thread David R.
Yes, I should have clarified, to connect the laptop ide drive to my Desktop Mac with the ATA/55 IDE Interface Card, and then format it as Mac... I am 'making sure' because just today I installed an Atapi Zip Drive to the ATA/66 card and while it formats zips as Mac, my scsi zip drive can't read

Re: New IDE HD in 5300 A No Show?

2002-06-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
David R. wrote: Check what it says on the drive or with the documentation...it sounds like you don't have the jumpers right. They're not always the same bt different drives. There's usually either markings on the electronics right by it, on the label, or both. Unfortunately it gives no

New IDE HD in 5300 A No Show?

2002-06-23 Thread David R.
I could use a bit of guidance here from some compassionate pb user. I've installed this 4 gb ide drive in place of the 500 mb one. Problem is, I can't get anything to see it. Right now I'm booted off 8.1 on an external scsi cd/rom. Tried 8.5 too with same results. So the 8.5 and 8.1 cd's

Re: New IDE HD in 5300 A No Show?

2002-06-23 Thread vicki
Hi David i sometimes come across this when cross platforming drives. Try it with out the jumper, and then if you have not already just use drive setup . One thing does the drive make any noise lick clicking or spining up then down if so has it been dropped or any weight placed on the drive

Re: New IDE HD in 5300 A No Show?

2002-06-23 Thread The Mad Macinchaote
PROTECTED] To: PowerBooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 4:53 PM Subject: New IDE HD in 5300 A No Show? Everything, and a few others I don't recall at the moment. After all this, I'm guessing the drive jumper pins aren't correct. (There's only four pins) -- PowerBooks

Re: New IDE HD in 5300 A No Show?

2002-06-23 Thread David R.
Check what it says on the drive or with the documentation...it sounds like you don't have the jumpers right. They're not always the same bt different drives. There's usually either markings on the electronics right by it, on the label, or both. Unfortunately it gives no jumper info on the