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From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 30 Nov 2009 11:18 Mike Rosenberg wrote: > Erik Richard Sørensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: >> Since it's a G4, I'll recommend to replace the disk with a >> WesternDigital Scorpio. You can get a 320gb for reasonable amount of >> money - apprx. $100USd - maybe less depending on where you're living... > > How do you know he has a late G4 model that supports drives larger than > 128 GB? Ups! - Good point infact.:-) - Don't know why, but I read it as a G4 PowerBook and not PowerMac, - That's also why I wrote WD Scoprio and not WD Caviar. - The G4 PowerBooks don't have the 128gb limit... Presuming that it can run larger disks - firmware ver. 4.3.8f6 or newer,, - then it's too expensive to buy a 320gb, - a 500gb WD Caviar or Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 is cheaper than the 320gb...:-) AND - if it's a G4 deskttop with an old IBM Deskstar (not TravelStar), it is also sure that it only can handle 120gb disks unless there is an extra PCI ATA Controller mounted. - The latest G4 desktop with an IBM disk as std. was - if I remember right - the DigitalAudio 533mhz... And if it's an IBM disk then I'm also 99% sure that it is the dis that is the problem. - Just within the last half a year, I've exchanged more than 10 of these IBM disks in older machines. - They all began to 'click-click'. - Three of them died before the owners even could manage to make a backup... - So if I were Poul, I wouldn't hesitate a moment but copy everything valuable to either DVDs or exte3rnal HD... Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: JF Mezei on 30 Nov 2009 11:26 >> How do you know he has a late G4 model that supports drives larger than >> 128 GB? I put a 160 gig drive in a G3. The system reported it as a 128gig drive and I had no problems with it. So if a larger drive is less costly, you can still plug it in. As long as the system says it isn't bigger than 128gigs, you're fine since it won't write any data beyond its limit (which would end up writing back to the start of the drive, overwriting home blocks etc).
From: Paul Magnussen on 30 Nov 2009 11:53 Jolly Roger wrote: > It's really hard to say without knowing exactly what you are hearing. To > be safe, you should be sure to back up everything on the drive in case > it's headed for failure. After you back up, you can run some diagnostic > utilities on it, such as Disk Utility's "Verify Disk" function, to see > if any error are reported. You might also check your "system.log" to see > if any I/O errors are being reported there. Such errors are a good > indication the drive is experiencing problems. Thanks everyone for your help. The boot disk is partitioned into two, and there is also a Western Digital hard drive. Since the noise comes at boot or wake-up time, I'm assuming it's the boot disk that's the culprit. All the disks pass verify at the moment, but the consensus seems to be that the writing's on the wall. All my main documents are backed up on a networked G3. Most of my apps are on disk or CD, but there are a few (such as REAL basic) that I downloaded. I will back those up immediately. I guess I also need to back up my preferences and my bookmarks. I think I will get a new disk and start using it before the old one goes belly up. Anything I've missed? Paul Magnussen
From: Paul Magnussen on 30 Nov 2009 11:57 Mike Rosenberg wrote: > Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > >> Since it's a G4, I'll recommend to replace the disk with a >> WesternDigital Scorpio. You can get a 320gb for reasonable amount of >> money - apprx. $100USd - maybe less depending on where you're living... > > How do you know he has a late G4 model that supports drives larger than > 128 GB? How do I tell? The Book of Words isn't very enlightening. Paul Magnussen
From: Paul Magnussen on 30 Nov 2009 12:12
The current disk is a 76.7 GB IBM-IC35L080AVV07-0 (it says here). Paul Magnussen |