Can't recognize old HD in new enclosure

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Hi there. I hope someone can help me out.

My old B/W G3 died. It had given me a lot of trouble and I was ready to upgrade. Bought a new iMac dual core. Love it so far.

I have a number of files I need on the internal drive of the dead G3, which was running OSX 10.3 something (Panther). (I know: backup, backup. I actually had almost everything critical duplicated on the other internal drive, but that obviously wasn't an ideal strategy.)

I put the 40GB Seagate internal drive in an external enclusure made by Coolmax (model CD-510) and hooked it up via Firewire to the iMac. "How easy is this?" I thought to myself. Then iMac said, "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer."

Diskutility can get data about the drive like capacity, but it says S.M.A.R.T. is not supported and none of the usual verify/repair options are available.

Thanks for any advice you can offer!
 
It could have something to do with the enclosure not being the right ATA format.. thing.

The jumper should probably be set as slave, as well.
 
sinclair_tm said:
are you sure that the true reason for the death of your g3 was the hard drive dieing?
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I didn't mean to imply that. I do not think there was anything wrong w/ the HD. The early B/W G3s, as I understand it, were a batch of lemons. There's quite a bit written online about replacing the motherboards...a step that seemed pointless given how old the machine is.
 
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