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Help with SATA converter...
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: San Jose, CA
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Ok, here is my friends situation. He has a G5 (Rev B 2.0). He has an ATA drive (western digital), and a ATA->SATA converter. He has everything plugged in, and ready to go (all cables and everything are fine). The problem is that the drive isn't showing up (it has power, we can hear it spinning). I think it has to do with the jumper settings on the drive, but I don't know what to do. I am hoping someone else here has used a SATA converter before, and can let us know what to do.
Thanks.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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does the drive not show up in Disk Utilities?
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Moderator  Join Date: May 2001
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Some ATA --> SATA converters are known to be very problematic. According to c't magazine, some will work just in specific drive/converter/chipset combos …
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well crap I have tried everything.... dual jumper settings, single jumper settings... I guess hooking up an ATA/100 to a G5 (SATA) system is just impossible...
does anyone have any info for me?????
if not anyone interested in buying a open box, never used 250g WesternDigital ATA/100 7200rpm HD??? I'll take any decent offer (I can use paypal)
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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Apple does not support them. Although, at xlr8yourmac.com someone rigged a y-connector to
the standard IDE bus and power connectors and ran a standard IDE drive in the second drive bay
and that did work so maybe try that.
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Moderator Join Date: May 2001
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Give us the exact model of the converter, maybe then we can help you.
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