Problems with Dual G5 and Maxtor 120G SATA
I just bought a Maxtor SATA 120Gb drive, and its causing the system to hang, I can partition it and format the drive, but I´m seeing a lot of beachballs cursors.
I´ve read that othe people are having problems with user installed drives, is there a solution??
I´ve seen this problem listed with other SATA drives in the apple support forums, there is a post where some one called apple Care and got their Drive working, but he can´t remeber what he did to make it work correctly...
Regards,
Luis
I´ve read that othe people are having problems with user installed drives, is there a solution??
I´ve seen this problem listed with other SATA drives in the apple support forums, there is a post where some one called apple Care and got their Drive working, but he can´t remeber what he did to make it work correctly...
Regards,
Luis
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The hard drive doesn't even have jumpers, it has one jumper that covers one pin only, I understand that no real configuration is necesary in this type pf drives.
Regards.
Luis
I get the same problem with X.2.8 and with Panther 7B74, whenever I'm working, browsing, etc, suddenly the cursor turns into a beachball and the OS just hangs, sometimes it comes back to life after a few minutes, but most of the time the system requires a hardware reset (holding the power button down for 4 sec.)
Maybe the original drive suffered some damage on its way to my home. I will have to test it under a Windows machine with the Seagate tools. Too bad noone I know has Serial ATA interface cards installed on their systems.
I'm currrently working with only the Maxtor drive, running 10.2.8 and so far I've has no problems, I'll post a new message if that changes. (I hope my post is to confirm that my G5 is doing OK and not otherwise).
What I would like to know is why the Seagate Barracuda ST3160023AS has a jumper ?, when these drives work with out them. In their web page it says it is for factory use only, but I would like to know what it does.
Regards,
Luis
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My question: I know Apple has set up these funky little snap-in modules for the SATA hard drives now. If you buy a drive from WD or Seagate, do you have to purchase the little doo-hickeys that allow SATA drives to snap into the G5 bays? Or, are the snap thingys a part of the G5 itself?
Too bad I'm in Central America and there is no Apple Store here, does any one here know if could contact apple and have them send over a drive by mail??
Regards
Luis
i've had drives in the 150GB+ range take up to 5 days to complete a zero format. unless you've waited a literal week, you haven't given it long enough.
install the OS onto the new drive you bought, boot off the new drive and give the old one a week to zero out. then let us know if it's still not working.
Yes any drive with a Serial ATA interface will work straight aout of the box (if the drive is OK).
alcimedes:
When I mentioned that drive hangs, I meant that it makes the Drive utility stall (beach ball and all). I zeroed out the 120G drive and it only took about 2 hours, maybe I´m ignorant but if you have a 160GB drive (that makes about 149G* 1024MB/G = 152576 MB in the drive) with a sustained write speed of about 25B/sec, it should zero the drive in about 100 minutes (roughly 2 hours).
In that whole time I would expect my drive to be making aounds as if it were actually writing something on the disc surface, but it just stays quite after 20 minutes.
With the Maxtor Drive the system doesn´t hang and I feel the OS actually becomes more responsive, so I disconnected my OEM drive and I´m working with the Maxtor one instead.
I´m located in Central America, should I contact Apple Care in the USA (where I bought it) and have them send me a drive??
the 5+ day ones were instances where the drive was basically broken. the zero format fixed them (at least for a year or so) but it took days.
Thanks for all your help.
Regards and best of wishes,
Luis Garcia
drives are weird like this at times. in any case, if i were you i wouldn't be planning on using this as your main drive. it'll probably faill in the next 6 - 12 months.
I did try to erase the drive with the 8 way zero option but it looked like it was going to take forever, so after about 8 hours, I decided to cancel and just zero out the drive before I made 2 partitions.
I don´t know what really happened to the OEM drive, but it seems working now, I will call AppleCare later today to see what they say. But I should probably start saving for a new drive, just as alcimides suggests.
Thanks for all your help
Luis
Originally posted by Moogs
Thanks ucaboys. That's good news... think I'm going to grab that 10k rpm monster from WD and use it as my main drive / use the OEM as primary storage.
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