Eric at Lucii.org on 18 Jul 2010 05:24:13 -0700 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Amul: Here is the label of the hard drive: http://www.lucii.com/old_drive.jpg If I can find another WD1800JB-00DUA0 drive I would be overjoyed as that would be a perfect match. The closest match I have seen is a 50DUA0 on eBay. Thanks, Eric On 07/17/2010 08:00 PM, Amul Shah wrote: > Ah, sorry for being dense, thanks for the explanation. What year is the drive from. I'll open my old G3 to see what it has in it. > thanks, > Amul > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/milanzfanclub > http://www.youtube.com/milanzfanclub > > On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:41 -0400, "Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org> wrote: > Amul: > > The only reason the HD version is important is because it has stopped > spinning > and I'm trying to do a "cheap" recovery of the data (if possible.) I > will soon > put a new HD in the old G4 but that's not going to get the data off of > the old HD. > > If I can find a similar (hopefully identical) circuit card I MAY be able > to get > the old drive to work - at least long enough to extract the data from it. > > Hence, my odd request. > > Thanks, > Eric > > > > On 07/17/2010 09:54 AM, Amul Shah wrote: >>>> HD brand and model are not important in Desktop Macs. For Laptop Macs, go to >>>> NewEgg and read the reviews by Mac owners. >>>> >>>> The only thing that is important is the interface, which should be IDE for you. >>>> You might have a disk capacity limitation based on older hardware (for the >>>> jokers: Intel machines of the same age have similar limitations). If you have >>>> disks lying around, put one of them in there an reinstall. >>>> >>>> Which model G4 do you have? >>>> >>>> HTH, >>>> Amul >>>> >>>> On Jul 16, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote: >>>> >>>> Doug: >>>> >>>> Since I'm trying to swap the electronics on the drive I suspect that brand is >>>> essential and model is probably important. This is a 180 Gig Western Digital >>>> Caviar drive so I'm guessing that at least a WD Caviar of similar capacity would >>>> be required. Please let me know if you have any WD Caviar drives in the bunch. >>>> All I have is a boat-load of old Maxtor drives and a couple of Seagate >>>> Barracudas. >>>> >>>> At my wife's suggestion I'm looking at ebay and craig's list too. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Eric >>>> >>>> On 07/16/2010 01:08 PM, Douglas Muth wrote: >>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote: >>>>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>>>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> My son's G4 Mac died and apparently it's due to the hard drive not working. I >>>>>>>> put the drive in an external case and it did not spin-up so I suspect the >>>>>>>> electronics board is bad. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'd like to try swapping the electronics to see if we can get it working. If >>>>>>>> anyone has an old Western Digital Caviar WD1800 (IDE) drive laying around and >>>>>>>> they'd be willing to donate it or sell it for a small sum you'd make a certain >>>>>>>> 18 year old music fan VERY happy. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Does it have to be that specific brand and model? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I was actually going through some old hard drives last night and still >>>>>>> hvae some working ones that you can have (once I wipe them). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- Doug >>>>>>> ___________________________________________________________________________ >>>>>>> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org >>>>>>> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >>>>>>> General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>>>>>> >>>> > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- > http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >>>> ___________________________________________________________________________ >>>> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org >>>> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >>>> General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug - -- # Eric Lucas # # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxC8kIACgkQ2sGpvXQrZ/5h8ACdGzT7ENKdrwxZY/tzCt17+rn9 TKgAn0CyUcSHGyZIcQsfS0z5kxEHxms9 =3OX/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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