Hello, all. I'm hoping someone here can give me some insight into what a newbie like myself is doing wrong.
I have a dual G5 1.8mhz running 10.3.4, and I'm trying to get a second hard drive working to back up data.
The new drive is a Western Digital Caviar WD1600 160GB EIDE. Knowing that it's not SATA, I have two options available to me, neither of them working.
Sonnet has a device called a Tempo Bridge that supposedly converts EIDE to SATA. All the cords and wires connects fine, but the cpu doesn't recognize the second drive at all. It may as well not be there, even though it's plugged in correctly (I think), and there is power running to the drive, it never shows up on the desktop, nor when running Disk Utility.
My second option is an external USB 2.0 enclosure (ME-320U2) which I have for my second DVD-RW drive. When I run the hard drive through that, it shows up in Disk Utility, but gives the size as 0 bytes, and when I try and format the disk, I'm given: Unknown error: -9692 Also, the Connection ID field is left blank, if that's any help.
I've searched all the support databases all the manufactures involved here have to offer, and I'm coming up empty. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
I have a dual G5 1.8mhz running 10.3.4, and I'm trying to get a second hard drive working to back up data.
The new drive is a Western Digital Caviar WD1600 160GB EIDE. Knowing that it's not SATA, I have two options available to me, neither of them working.
Sonnet has a device called a Tempo Bridge that supposedly converts EIDE to SATA. All the cords and wires connects fine, but the cpu doesn't recognize the second drive at all. It may as well not be there, even though it's plugged in correctly (I think), and there is power running to the drive, it never shows up on the desktop, nor when running Disk Utility.
My second option is an external USB 2.0 enclosure (ME-320U2) which I have for my second DVD-RW drive. When I run the hard drive through that, it shows up in Disk Utility, but gives the size as 0 bytes, and when I try and format the disk, I'm given: Unknown error: -9692 Also, the Connection ID field is left blank, if that's any help.
I've searched all the support databases all the manufactures involved here have to offer, and I'm coming up empty. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
