AUGD: Re: [NaplesMUG] Western Digital MyBook / MyStudio and your PPC computer
AUGD: Re: [NaplesMUG] Western Digital MyBook / MyStudio and your PPC computer
- Subject: AUGD: Re: [NaplesMUG] Western Digital MyBook / MyStudio and your PPC computer
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:24:45 EST
Thanks for everybody's input. I found great deals at Other World Computing. They work great, like LaCie. They both use the old Oxford chipset.
I guess, for me, WD means "Won't Do."
Gary
In a message dated 12/24/08 2:49:26 PM, email@hidden writes:
I think this is relevant to what you and I were trying to do
Jerry
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jerome King <email@hidden>
Date: December 24, 2008 2:41:31 PM EST
To: NaplesMug Discussion <email@hidden>
Subject: [NaplesMUG] Western Digital MyBook / MyStudio and your PPC computer
Reply-To: email@hidden
Many of us have been buying various size Western Digital (WD) MyBook (My Studio, etc) hard drives to use as external drives connected to our Apple computers. Read this message if you have a Power PC Apple computer (e.g. G4, G5, etc).
Recently I bought a 300 GB WD My-something to use as an external drive for my G5 iMac located in Delaware. I'm connected via FireWire but what I am about to describe is NOT FireWire or USB 2 related.
I had a LaCie hard drive functioning as the holder of my Time Machine data but had no drive that could serve as a Bootable Clone of my G5 iMac. The WD drive was to serve that function.
After a couple of days of frustrating work I determined that I could NOT get the WD drive (with SuperDuper created clone) to act as a boot drive.
I went to Google and entered a search string like "WD drive won't boot for Apple computers" and found lots of entries. The attached file tells the bottom line.
WD drives will NOT work as boot drive for any Apple PPC computer
<http://forums.macworld.com/message/617151>
Jerry
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