I just picked up an old PowerMac G4 and it works wonderfully except it has trouble reading two drives that I took out of the Windows box that it is replacing. I have two fat32, ata, non-raid drives a WD-800 and WD-1600. Neither are working and they both have different problems. I have played around with the terminal and mounting the drives to no avail.
Here are the specifics:
The WD-1600
This drive is read by OS X. It used to be detected as a different type, but it just started showing up as the right drive type. The capacity in System Profiler says it s 128GB, finder's info says 148 (the correct size). The SMART status says, not supported. This drive does get mounted, however the drive name, and the file names are unreadable. I ran an ubuntu ppc live cd and was not able to mount it. It did work in Windows as of 2 days ago however.
The WD-800
This is found by System Profiler and I was able to mount it in Ubuntu. When OS X stars up I get an error message that says: "Disk Insertion; The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer."
Hopefully this is fixable without a reformat.
Here are the specifics:
The WD-1600
This drive is read by OS X. It used to be detected as a different type, but it just started showing up as the right drive type. The capacity in System Profiler says it s 128GB, finder's info says 148 (the correct size). The SMART status says, not supported. This drive does get mounted, however the drive name, and the file names are unreadable. I ran an ubuntu ppc live cd and was not able to mount it. It did work in Windows as of 2 days ago however.
The WD-800
This is found by System Profiler and I was able to mount it in Ubuntu. When OS X stars up I get an error message that says: "Disk Insertion; The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer."
Hopefully this is fixable without a reformat.