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Help! New WD Hd won't format...
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Hey guys and gals...
I just picked up a 120 GB Western Digital Drive for my Dual 450mhz G4. I salved it and it shows up in Disk Utility. I got for format (erase) the disk and it stalls at 'unmounting old volume'
The drive wasn't mounted in the first place, as it was not previously formatted. Any suggestions?
Shane
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Verify that the jumper settings on the new drive are correct for a secondary (slave) drive.
Verify that all cable are firmly seated.
What OS are you using?
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Running 10.2.8 and I confirmed the jumper setting (as a slave)
Disk Utilities reports the drive "Connection ID" Slave"
shane
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You might want to give it a shot with everything on cable select.
(Thats what I use for all my hard drives in my MDD and even though I have the positions switched on two of the drives Panther still figures out what I want and after a lag when waiting for local disks it always works fine.)
Can you try mounting the drive with another app (terminal?) and then letting it unmount it?
Or start from a cd and try formating it from there.
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Try doing a full format, zeroing all data etc if you havent already tried it..
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Welp.... after playing with the jumper settings for awhile, going from cable select, to master, to slave to null, I put it back to slave and the format was sucessful.
The drive seems to be working great now... but still don't know whta the issue was.
Shane
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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I had troubles on the weekend with a new FireWire case and an older 60G drive not being able to unmount. Turned out I had a Terminal open and was looking at that disk's directory. Did a quick "cd /" and everything worked as planned. Maybe something similar happened to you?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally posted by ShaneHale7:
Welp.... after playing with the jumper settings for awhile, going from cable select, to master, to slave to null, I put it back to slave and the format was sucessful.
The drive seems to be working great now... but still don't know whta the issue was.
Shane
this has happened to me with three different WD drives (one mine, two friends'). once they starting working and we got the OS installed, we've had no problems, so i don't know what to think :cP but i wouldn't recommend a WD drive to anybody because i haven't been able to find any pattern to fix it and it's quite a headache. sometimes it will even format but the OS install will fail (both OSX and winxp).
the drives were a 60 gig and two 80 gigs. all 7200 rpm.
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