Wonder how long 500GB takes to format, 4 - 5 hours?

Quote: Originally Posted by voo Wonder how long 500GB takes to format, 4 - 5 hours? Quick format should take about a minute... why bother with a full format?

It sounds like you are trying to add as much HD space as possible. Don't forget that you can add even more HD's through adding additional drive brackets, which several companies p…

Quote: Originally Posted by BuD-TheDude It sounds like you are trying to add as much HD space as possible. Don't forget that you can add even more HD's through adding additiona…

Hi I bought a 500gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 Hard Drive for my Dual 2Ghz Power Mac G5. The computer doesn't see it. I went back to the shop and they tested it on their PCs, upon…

elrah: I've heard of other people having problems with large capacity Seagate drives in G5s. I'm not sure why, but your experience is echoed in other anecdotes. I'd return the driv…

I just slapped a 400gb Hitachi in my first gen dual 2GHz G5 (after a logic board death drug my oem 250 screaming to the grave), and my G5 sees the 400gb drive just fine, so I figur…

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…