Subject: Re: [ot] iMac hard drive
From: Michael A. Peters (Moonglue@141.com )
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 16:50:35 MDT
>The hard drive should work fine. There is nothing special about the iMac's
>and what drives they can use. You don't have to low-level format the
>drives. Try running Drive Setup again and do another install.
That's not completely true. There are some IDE hard drives that have
cheap firmware that don't work with all models (if any models) of Mac.
I also believe (though I'm not positive) that iMacs had the same
cheap ide chipset that rev A beige and earlier macs had- where you
can't do master/slave with ide (in other words- not standard ide to
begin with).
I use to crack open three or four iMacs a day as a Authorized Mac
Tech. We used Quantums drives supplied from the storefront
preformated for Mac (which we always reformatted anyway cause they
had silverlining on em), but we did get an alert from apple that some
IDE/ATA drives had firmware issues that did not allow them to be
recognized by some macs during the boot process.
I don't know that that's what is going on with this drive, but it
sure seems like it (even when booting from CD it takes considerally
longer to boot than it should, as if something internally is timing
out before the process continues).
The drive mounts when booting off CD, I can select the drive in the
startup disks, but it isn't being seen as a bootable drive when the
Mac is going through the boot process.
Reason I did a low level initially is because the drive came from a
production machine and had sensitive data on it. Low level format in
such cases is standard procedure.
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