when i first got my DA G4 i was playing around in OS X (had it a few days) and i didnt hear any activity from the HDD and everything stop responding and OS X KPed on me. i tried booting back up but nothing. it didnt see the HDD when i booted up from the tiger CD. so i pulled all of the connections and reseated them and pressed the cuda but still nothing from the HDD.
i was getting mad that i only had it a few days. i turned it off for a wile and went to something else. it eventually popped into my head that the IDE cable gets bent every time you open the case. i took out the IDE cable and messed with it a bit and put it back on and it finally seen the HDD and has worked flawlessly ever since. i since then put my 120gb HDD in it as master with OS 9.2.2 and OS X tiger on it and put the stock 40gb HDD as slave and Leopard is installed on that
like others say i would just see if its the IDE cable at fault. if you have a spare IDE cable around or mess around with the stock IDE cable to see if it will start to work again.
i was getting mad that i only had it a few days. i turned it off for a wile and went to something else. it eventually popped into my head that the IDE cable gets bent every time you open the case. i took out the IDE cable and messed with it a bit and put it back on and it finally seen the HDD and has worked flawlessly ever since. i since then put my 120gb HDD in it as master with OS 9.2.2 and OS X tiger on it and put the stock 40gb HDD as slave and Leopard is installed on that
like others say i would just see if its the IDE cable at fault. if you have a spare IDE cable around or mess around with the stock IDE cable to see if it will start to work again.