| Lee Marzke on 20 Jul 2010 10:29:45 -0700 |
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If you google the Drive number there is a lot of info, and maybe someone selling that drive. Also, found this, which says that switching controller boards will not work: *http://tinyurl.com/29n3oxl*I kind of expected that think like number of platters, bad sector map, etc would be burned into the controller at final assembly, and that you couldn't just switch them. Lee On 07/18/2010 08:23 AM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote: -----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- -- # Eric Lucas___________________________________________________________________________ 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# # "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 -- "Between subtle shading and the absence of light lies the nuance of iqlusion..." - Kryptos Lee Marzke, lee@marzke.net http://marzke.net/lee/ IT Consultant, VMware, VCenter, SAN storage, infrastructure, SW CM +1 484-961-0369 voice +1 484-348-2230 fax begin:vcard fn:Lee Marzke n:Marzke;Lee org:4AERO adr;dom:;;;Collegeville;PA;19426 email;internet:lee@marzke.net title:Consultant tel;work:800 393 5217 tel;fax:484 348-2230 tel;cell:484 961-0369 url:http://4aero.com version:2.1 end:vcard ___________________________________________________________________________ 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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