After a bit of research it seems the Seagate 7200.9 hard drives have SSC, Spread Spectrum Clocking. I can't say I know what it means other than you will need a PCI card that is com…

Just disable the SSC and you should be able to see the drive.

hmurchison2001: Is it possible to disable the SSC myself? I have just received an email from Seagate telling me... "The issue is actually with the controller card in question. T…

Why start a thread when there is http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drived....drivedb.lasso ? tooki

Hate to have to disagree, but I can't find anything on the topic over that with that search engine.

Elrah Damn it looks like the SSC cannot be disabled on the Seagates.

For the record, MaxConnect offers a product that will allow installation of bunches of more drives into a G5. I have not tried it, but I read the rundown on MacNN's front page a f…

Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison2001 Elrah Damn it looks like the SSC cannot be disabled on the Seagates. There is a DOS based utility called sscset.exe that a Seag…

I've had a 500Gb Hitachi in my dual 2.5 for about a month now, works like a dream. Formatted in about a minute and was ready to use. 463.4Gb listed as available.

Storage Review shows the new Hitachi 500GB SATA as the current 7200RPM performance king. It runs a little hotter than other drives, but that's no surprise for the fastest, largest…

Quote: Originally Posted by clinexo There is a DOS based utility called sscset.exe that a Seagate technician E-mailed me when I called this problem in. It will allow you to togg…

Got my Seagate drive back with the SSC disabled and it now works perfectly Listen to clinexo, and use this DOS utility if you can. I had mine fixed by the peeps at Seagate and ha…

When you disable SSC, does it diminish the performance/speed of the drive in any way? I've had the same problem with my new PM G6 Quad recognizing a Seagate 500gb SATA internal dr…

Some of you might have seen my post at Macrumors, but I thought this might be interesting in it's own right. I have an 18 months old iBook (1GHz, 768MB RAM, Tiger 10.4.3). My usage…

Shutting off at 50% is a usually a good indication that you need to calibrate your battery. (Here are the directions for calibrating an iBook battery.) However your usage pattern m…

Agreed that a calibration is in order, but the usage doesn't look like every use is a calibration cycle...if the iBook is put back on the charger before it shuts itself down, then…

Unfortuantely there is no way I will be going through a full calibration cycle. It dies every couple of mAh's, so going from 1800mAh to 0mAh would take forever But I can vouch fo…

Quote: Originally Posted by new_apple Unfortuantely there is no way I will be going through a full calibration cycle. It dies every couple of mAh's, so going from 1800mAh to 0mA…

Wow, 742 cycles and still over 80% capacity. My 14" 1.2ghz iBook battery only has 51 cycles in 17 months and it is at 72% according to Capacity Meter. I've recalibrated it several …

People are total idiots when it comes to this sort of thing. Remember the iBook kafaffle? http://www.wtsp.com/weird/weird_arti...?storyid=21724

This type of thing happens every year on the day after Thanksgiving. Laptops aren't the only things that cause people to act this way. In my area it was socks that were 50% off tha…

Throwing a laptop 20 feet in the air and a group of people jumping on top of it is normal?

Quote: Originally Posted by Dark Helmet Throwing a laptop 20 feet in the air and a group of people jumping on top of it is normal? No, its not normal. But in the US, on the…

Only in America™, seriously

Nope, similar thing happened at IKEA in the UK.