Search results

Affirmative!! I placed an Hitachi 40 gb in and everything went smooth as silk. The little iBook is doing it's system upgrades as I type; and, another Macintosh crisis is solved. Toshiba and Samsung=2 companies that do not play nice with Apples.

This is incorrect! Toshiba is NOT supported in the drivers; and, should you put an incompatible hdd into an iBook, it will disable all boot devices, including the CD/DVD ROM. I just experienced this yesterday, and with even Apple saying that a 2.5" IDE is a 2.5" IDE, I found myself chasing my...

Nope. I reset the PRAM, PMU, NVRAM, and used firmware commands to verify the device tree, and set the boot-device. NOTHING WORKED!! It's the Toshiba drive that is giving you problems I am suspecting.

Hello, I am having the EXACT same problem with my iBook and a Toshiba 60 gb hard drive. Here is what I have narrowed it down to: Incompatible IDE drive. I know it sounds weird. I thought a 2.5" IDE was a 2.5" IDE, but, apparently Apple and this iBook think differently. One thing I...