Connecting a SATA disk to my iMac

I had my 250GB LaCie d2 SATA disk connected to my G3 using the Serial ATA PCI card which came with the disk.It worked fine.
Recently I replaced the G3 by an iMac; it has no SATA connection and no room to add the Serial ATA PCI card.
However, I also bought an Iomega 1TB disk, which has four ports/connections with the right cables.
The FireWire port is the connection to the iMac, the USB port I used to connect another 80GB LaCie disk. Everything's ok, but when I connected the SATA LaCie disk to the Iomega, using a SATA to eSATA cable, the disk doesn't appear in the System Profiler.
Apparently, I just can't leave out the PCI card.
The LaCie manual states the I need this PCI card or (adjusted)BIOS.
Does anyone see a way around the PCI card;do I need other drivers; can I change my BIOS, whatever that may be?

I'm sure in some way you could but to just use a ESATA disk it's a waste of time, money and a perfectly good computer. Why not just move on and replace it with a Firewire 800 drive, it may surprise you how fast it is. Even better if you can get the disk out of the enclosure it's in you could put it in a FW800 enclosure.

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IDE Hard disk + SATA Disk

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could take the time to give me some help, I recently assembled
a new computer using an MSI KT600 motherboard, the one showed here:
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=KT6V-LSR&class=mb
This board has two Serial ATA connectors that supports RAID 0 and RAID 1. I tried to attach an IDE hard disk and a SATA hard disk to it, but I started to get blue screens of death, I disconnected the SATA hard disk leaving the machine with only one IDE disk and everything is working fine now.
I cannot find any information regarding the use of one IDE disk and a SATA disk and my question is:
Is it not possible to use both at the same time?
My current configuration is this:
Maxtor hard disk 40 gigabytes Primary master
CD-Rom primary slave
DVD-Rom secondary master
DVD-RW secondary slave
My desire is to attach only one Western Digital 80 gigabytes SATA disk to the Serial ATA connector.
Appreciate your support

Hi guys,
I thought that I should let you know of my progress regarding the installation of a
Serial ATA hard disk to my stable machine that uses an IDE hard disk to boot up into Windows XP.
To be frank with anyone who could ask, this was a crazy experiment, I am still unsure that things are as smooth as they really look, but so far this is what happened:
My computer’s power supply did not had an empty connector for the SATA hard disk, so I decided to modify one of the connectors that are used to power up floppy drives attaching a a connector from another power supply. I connected the SATA disk to this connector, plugged everything and started the machine, the bios detected the new hard disk and Windows XP appeared without any problems. Because the new Serial ATA hard disk was not formatted, I could not see it in when I opened the Icon “My Computer”, so, following instructions from the manufacturer of the disk, I used a Windows Tool to format, the most amazing thing is that the disk was formatted in seconds.
I am able to access the second disk with no problems at the moment.
Anyway, that's it.

I want to use my Macbook Air 2011 as an external disk for my iMac 2011. I connected the two with a Thunderbolt cable and when starting the MacBook Air I pressed "T" and it worked except with Office documents. Can anybody help?

I want to use my MacBook Air as an external disk to my iMac. I talked to Apple care and we solved it by connecting a Thunderbolt cable between the two computers. I then turn on the MacBook Air while pressing the "T" and it works. I can sit and work on my iMac and grab/change/save the files that are in my MacBook Air EXCEPT for the Microsoft Office files. I called Microsoft and they can't solve it. They say it might be a problem with the Thunderbolt cable. Has anybody have this problem?
Both computers are 2011 and they both have Office 2011.
Thanks in advance,
Alejandra

For Word it says "Word cannot open this document. The document might be in use, the document might not be a valid Word document, or the file name might contain invalid characters (for example, /)"
For Excel it says "the file could not be found. Check te spelling of the filename, and verify that the file location is correct. If you are trying to open the file from your list of most recently used files on the File menu, make sure hat the file has not been renamed, moved or deleted.
I tried this with many different documents, and I always get the same message.

Problem High running Temperature Specification iMac 27 inch Mac OS X Includes Software Snow Leopard upgraded to Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.03 (1278) 251 GB Flash Drive 2 TB Sata disk Processor 3.4 Ghz Intel Core I7 Memory 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Graphics

Problem
High running Temperature
Specification
iMac 27 inch
Mac OS X Includes Software Snow Leopard upgraded to Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.03 (1278)
251 GB Flash Drive
2 TB Sata disk
Processor 3.4 Ghz Intel Core I7
Memory 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6970 2048 MB
Video: Software Final Cut Pro X 10.0.8
I use the imac mainly for editing Video which when doing so it has reached temperatures of near to 60° C which causes the program to become unstable and needs to be cooled down to operate correctly.
An Apple technician (by phone) advised me to download an smcfancontrol. This allows each individual fan to increase speed and also advises the current temperature at °C. The smcfancontrol has been downloaded but this has not resolved the problem. By increasing the speed of the fan more heat is generated and creates additional noise.
I have since taken the iMac to an Apple Store for examination as suggested by APPLECARE when the fans were found to be working correctly. An Apple Store technician carried out a test, but not whilst working under the pressure of FINAL CUT PRO when the iMac generates a high temperature.
The Temperature Specification for this model is
Operating Temperature 20 °c to 35°C
Storage Temp.47°c
Clearly the temperature my iMac is operating at is excessive and could cause the computer to break down prematurely. Has anyone experienced this problem.
Frank Howell

When was the last time you cleaned/vacuumed out all of your iMac's vents, slots and ports.
You need to do this with the iMac powered down, disconnected from power and everything disconnected.
Lay your iMac, screen down, on a soft surface, like a heavy towel. Use a small electronics vac, or portable or full size vac with hose and a crevice tool attachment and carefully and slowly vacuum every vent, slot and port on your iMac.
Then reconnect everything up, power up and download and install iStat Pro. Start working, then report the temps of your iMac after this has been done.
When using SMCFan Control, it is important not to run the fans at too high an RPM. This doesn't generate heat on its own, but will suck in more dust, lint and dirt into your iMac, and that will be the cause of additonal increases in heat.
I run my fans in the range of 1400-1600 RPMs. You can go as high as 1800 RPMs but it is important to keep the RPM range below either 1800 or below 2000 RPMs.
I, also, run a very small desktop fan pointed toward the upper back of my iMac to keep temps down even further.

SATA Disk won't work without a IDE disk connected.

Hi, my specs :
k8n neo2 platinum
amd xp3000+
crucial 3200 ddr memory
Samsung Spinpoint S-ATA 160GB
(IBM 70GXP IDE 40GB) Just in the box to make the S-ata drive work
NEC DVD-RW
I've been running this machine now for 3-4 months, with both HDD's. Today I decided to remove the noisy IBM disk from the system. I removed it from the Primary IDE Slave and made the DVD-RW stay alone on the Primary IDE.
So, now the only thing I got installed is the S-ATA disk on SATA3 or SATA4 slots.
and the NEC DVD-RW on Primary Master.
The problems starts here
Now my machine only goes to bios and stops because : INSERT SYSTEM DISK blablabla...
My SATA disk is properly displayed in BIOS as a working HDD. No problem there... I have tried everything, believe me... Everything that can be done... I have changed the Sata disk to all diffrent SATA slots, 1/2/3/4 and Cleared the BIOS, resetted the bios you name it.
But, when i install the IDE disk (ibm disk) on the Primary Slave IDE, everything works well!
PS: The IBM disk is just a MP3 disk that doesn't store anything else than that.
But!, in Windows, the IBM disk is named C:\ and the System disk (on the S-ATA drive) is named D:\ (no problems running WinXP at all with that issue)
This is really annoing, like i'm going to have that noise IBM disk in my chassis forever!

Your problem is that you had the ide disk connected when installing xp on the sata (3'rd master).
Windows_inst always use a disk on 1'st or 2'nd ide channel as system drive if it finds one (the first it sees) . So the ntldr,boot.ini,ntdetect.com is placed there .
When you remove the IBM drive there is no boot drive anymore .
What you should have done when installing windows to the sata drive
is to temporary disconnect all drives in front of it , so that the sata 3'rd master
is the first disk win_install sees .
Now you have registry of all programs and such pointing to D: in that win installation.
You should take the time to do a fresh new install with only the sata drive connected . This makes it system drive and it's partition C: .

How can I make a recovery disk for an imac 24 " early 2008 to April 2009 or connect via thunderbolt to another imac

How can I make a recovery disk for an imac 24 " early 2008 to April 2009 or connect via thunderbolt to another imacimac 24 " or connect via thunderbolt to another imac
ann

You will only know about the hard drive when you try to access it in TDM from your other computer. If you cannot boot into TDM mode or if the drive does not appear on the new computer's Desktop then it is likely bad.
What you are thinking about as a recovery disk is the Recovery HD normally created when you install Lion or later on the computer. You boot from it as follows:
Boot Using Command+R keys:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the
"COMMAND" and the "R" keys together.
3. Release the keys when the Utilities Menu appears.

K7N2 Delta2-LSR - SATA disk does not boot with IDE disk connected

I have K7N2 Delta2-LSR with SATA 160GB drive and CD burner connected as primary master.
When I'm connecting any IDE hard disk, the mainboard detects it corectly, but I'm not able to boot from SATA drive.
I tried to turn off IDE drive detection in BIOS (set [None] instead of [Auto]) and SATA boots!!! And Windows XP and Linux can see both disks!!!
Is it a BUG in BIOS?
Maciek
K7N2 Delta2-LSR (with latest BIOS Sep 18, 2004)
Athlon XP (Barton) 2800+
SATA drive WD 160GB
GF4MX440
FSB333, DDRAM 512MB/400
PSU 350W, works stable with 2 HDs and CDRW.

Strange my board boots fine from SATA with a PATA HDD connected. XP and Linux will see any disks connected to the motherboard and powered up in your system even if disabled in the bios apart from those connected to a separate raid controller which should be enabled. Both these operating systems address the hardware directly once their drivers are loaded so will ignore the settings you have in the bios. This behaviour is normal and not a bios bug. The main boot disk has of course to be enabled in the bios for the boot loader to operate. The boot priority with the new south bridge is PATA first followed by SATA and XP uses this too. To ensure that XP boots from SATA properly the PATA drive must be disconnected during the install process. You also need to ensure that the SATA disk is the only active partition connected to your system. If the PATA disk has been used to boot an operating system previously there may still be an active partition present on the drive. If that is the case removing the active partition should cure the problem but if the present arrangement works for you then fine.

Difficulty detecting SATA disk, adding a second SATA disk, memory conflict, etc

I resolved the SATA problem in the middle of writing this post, but for others’ benefit in the future, I am still describing it here. But there are still some unresolved problems.
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I have an Intel P4 2.4 GHz CPU.
My MSI motherboard has the words 865PE Neon 2P on it.
BIOS is AmiBIOS 3.31a.
I cannot tell what display card I have. I do not see any brand printed on the card.
I have an (internal) 37 GB IDE hard disk (I cannot see the brand and I am too lazy to un-mount it) as the C drive.
About 3 years ago I added another internal disk, 150GB Western Digital WD 1600, SATA as the E drive.
I have a copy of Windows XP Pro SP2 on each of these two hard drives but I always boot on C.
I also have 2 DVD drives (Drives D and G) and 6 (2 at the side and 4 at the back) USB ports.
A shop installed everything for me and things have been well. I did not record the BIOS settings so I do not know how it was set up. My nightmare started about 2 weeks ago when my PC suddenly did not detect E, i.e. the SATA drive. I had not done anything to the BIOS setting or otherwise, so I have no idea why the E drive suddenly disappeared.
At that time, the Standard CMOS Features in the BIOS setting was:
Primary IDE Master - Not Installed
Primary IDE Slave - IC35L060AVV207-0
Secondary IDE Master - Pioneer DVD ROM
Secondary IDE Slave - Lite On DVD ROM
Third IDE Master - Not Installed
Third IDE Slave - Not Installed
Fourth IDE Master - Not Installed
Fourth IDE Slave - Not Installed
I tried many things and finally bought a hard disk enclosure and put that SATA in it and connect it to one of the USB ports. It works.
This morning I stumbled on this article "Motherboard can't detect SATA hard disk" at http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=119738.0 and also “Q: How to enable both SATA and PATA? “ on “NEO Boards Unofficial FAQ rev 4/05/2004 - two lights on "P" series” at https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=21469.0 taking about the On-Chip IDE Configuration section of the BIOS menu and I decided to give it a try, so that I can get rid of that hard disk enclosure.
It works, kind of. I saw that it was set to Legacy Mode, P-ATA Only, SATA Keep Enabled=No, PATA Keep Enabled=No, PATA Channel Selection=Both, Combined Mode Option=PATA 1st Channel, SATA Ports Definition= P0-3rd/P1-4th. So following the advice on the article and the FAQ, I reset it to Legacy Mode, P-ATA + S-ATA, SATA Keep Enabled=No, PATA Keep Enabled=No, PATA Channel Selection=Both, Combined Mode Option=PATA 1st Channel, SATA Ports Definition= P0-Master/P1-Slave. Now my PC could detect the SATA drive and set it as the D drive (and the IDE remained as Drive C) but my two DVD ROMs disappeared. The Standard CMOS Features in the BIOS setting was:
Primary IDE Slave - IC35L060AVV207-0
Secondary IDE Master - WDC WD1600JD-00HBB
The rest is Not Installed.
So, I (only) changed Combined Mode Option to SATA 1st Channel. So apparently my PC now booted using the WinXP copy on the SATA disk (recall that I have WinXP on both hard disks). And now the SATA disk is C, and both DVD ROMs are visible. My IDE disk disappeared.
Now I went back to the BIOS menu and switched back to PATA 1st Channel, reset it back to P-ATA Only, and changed SATA Keep Enabled=Yes. Voila. Now I can see my IDE disk as Drive C, SATA disk as Drive D, the two DVD ROMs as Drives E and G. Everything looks fine except that some of the start-up programs no longer start up apparently because their paths used to be E:\.... but now the disk they are on was renamed from E to D so the operating system cannot locate them. And the Standard CMOS Features menu reads:
Primary IDE Master - Not Installed
Primary IDE Slave - IC35L060AVV207-0
Secondary IDE Master - Pioneer DVD ROM
Secondary IDE Slave - Lite On DVD ROM
Third IDE Master - Not Installed
Third IDE Slave - Not Installed
Fourth IDE Master - WDC WD1600JD-00HBB
Fourth IDE Slave - Not Installed
Problem 1 (the main problem): Difficulty detecting SATA disk – Resolved. If anyone is kind enough, maybe you can tell me and others why suddenly the BIOS setting was changed by itself causing all these problems, and why “P-ATA Only, SATA Keep Enabled=Yes” works but “P-ATA + S-ATA, SATA Keep Enabled=No” does not. Should I now tweak the Windows registry to change the drive letter of the SATA disk from D to E?
Problem 2: I just bought an internal Hitachi Deskstar 640GB SATA disk. And I have a vacant orange SATA connector on my mobo. Can I add it together with the existing 2? Would it be set up as Third IDE Master, Fourth IDE Slave, or something else?
Problem 3: I used to have a Samsung DDR PC2700 512MB memory module and during the last week I added a Corsair DDR PC3200 1GB memory module, both on the green slots (not the purple slots). It caused my PC to freeze (keyboard and mouse not responsive) every now and then. So I pulled out the Samsung one and it has been working fine. Some said one has to use memory from the same manufacturer with the same size and same everything. The sticky thread titled “NEO Boards Unofficial FAQ rev 4/05/2004 - two lights on "P" series” in this forum has a question “I have this RAM xxxx but it does not work with my board. Can MSI update the BIOS to fix this?” and the answer points to a Product Info page and I don’t know where that is. Any advice on how to make both work together? Can I use the purple slots?
Problem 4: The “usable” space on my Dell M991 CRT monitor has shrunk. That is, the black areas on both sides, mostly RHS, have intermittently enlarged. It only happened in these 2 weeks. I tried Control Panel – Display – Settings – Advanced – Displays – Adjustments to no avail. I don’t have another monitor to try in order to test whether it has to do with the CRT. Just in case you happen to know anything, please jot a line.
Problem 5: Some of my USB ports do not work or only work intermittently. For example I plugged in my wireless adaptor into one of them and it sometimes would say “USB Device Not Recognized”.

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If anyone is kind enough, maybe you can tell me and others why suddenly the BIOS setting was changed by itself causing all these problems, and why “P-ATA Only, SATA Keep Enabled=Yes” works but “P-ATA + S-ATA, SATA Keep Enabled=No” does not.
Maybe your CMOS Battery is running low and it is time to replace it.
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Should I now tweak the Windows registry to change the drive letter of the SATA disk from D to E?
Try to change drive letters via the Windows Drive Manager:
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/driveltr.php
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Problem 2: I just bought an internal Hitachi Deskstar 640GB SATA disk. And I have a vacant orange SATA connector on my mobo. Can I add it together with the existing 2?
If it is a SATA-II Drive, you will probably have to force it into SATA-I Compatibility mode first (check the hard drive user manual for jumper settings or firmware switches).
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I used to have a Samsung DDR PC2700 512MB memory module and during the last week I added a Corsair DDR PC3200 1GB memory module, both on the green slots (not the purple slots). It caused my PC to freeze (keyboard and mouse not responsive) every now and then. So I pulled out the Samsung one and it has been working fine. Some said one has to use memory from the same manufacturer with the same size and same everything.
Exactly. Mixing different memory modules causes problems in many cases because the exact same settings will apply to both modules at the same time. What works for the one module may not work so well for the other one.
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Just in case you happen to know anything, please jot a line.
That is either related to the monitor itself or to the video card. It may also be related to a problem with the driver or improper screen resolution settings.
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Problem 5: Some of my USB ports do not work or only work intermittently. For example I plugged in my wireless adaptor into one of them and it sometimes would say “USB Device Not Recognized”.
What ports? Front Panel or Back Panel?

How to change SATA disk controller on Toshiba Satellite A135 s2276

Hello guys, I know that there was a similar question already (kindly answered by Mike), but my situation differs a little.
I'm trying to install the SSD intead of my hard drive.
Problem is that even though BIOS can see the SSD I cannot install Windows on it (tried XP and 7). Cannot even format it from installation disk (it just hangs).
When I hook it up on a usb cable, it works fine (SSD). I can format it (from windows) and copy files on it like and external drive it doesn't have any issues.
When I try to install windows on it (either from a CD or usb) it hangs. The same situation is if I try to install the system when the SSD is in usb port or if I put it inside, where my hard drive originally is (SATA connection). It just seets there. Comes to copying files and then stops.
I think I'd need to change the SATA disk controller in BIOS (sata to ide or compatibility mode) in order for it to work, however there's no such an option in the latest BIOS for this model (1.60).
Any help appreciated, thanks Miki
ps. update - I succesfully installed windows on another Toshiba (which has the option to change the sata controller in bios), using the same SSD so I think this is definitely the problem. Any ideas apart from buying a newer comp?

Hi
If such option is NOT available in BIOS then you will be no able to change this!!!
In such case the HDD controller will say in SATA mode and if you want to install an operating system then you need to install the SATA drivers firstly!
Bye

I need to replace my hard disk of my iMac, it is a wdc wd3200aajs, what woul be a good candidate

I need to replace my hard disk of my iMac, it is a wdc wd3200aajs, what woul be a good candidate

The "Blacks" are superior...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD1002FAEX/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD2002FAEX/
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SATA Disks Issues with OEL 5.8 uek 64Bit

Hi Oracle Linux Experts/Tech Gurus!,
We are facing lot of issues with SATA disks at both Internal and External,
if we use any SATA USB External Disk it make server hang and sometimes restart
We face this issues with external SATA ARRAY connected at DS-3400
1. Files under this SATA disk partition is gone.
2. Disk free space not release after deleted files
3. Server got hang and restarted many times
4. Disk IO Performance is very slow
(hdparm -t result 70MB/secs earlier it was 130MB/secs with RHEL32)
This issues we are facing with this SATA disk array on SAN DS-3400 connected via QLA2460 Qlogic 4G Fiber HBA Card.
We are not faced any issues before with RHEL32Bit OS on this same HW Setup, once we changed to OEL5.8 64
Please help us to fix this issue with SATA Disks on this OEL 5.8.
Thanks & Regards,
Prabhakar.D
Edited by: dpprabhuindia on May 14, 2013 7:08 PM

And here is the output of scli -i (SANSurfer cli tool)
~]# scli -i
Host Name : xxxxxxxx
HBA Instance : 0
HBA Model : QLA2460
HBA Description : QLA2460 PCI-X 2.0 to 4Gb FC Single Channel
HBA ID : 0-QLA2460
HBA Alias :
HBA Port : 1
Port Alias :
Node Name : 20-00-00-E0-8B-8B-25-F8
Port Name : 21-00-00-E0-8B-8B-25-F8
Port ID : 61-09-13
Serial Number : GFC0640H84421
Driver Version : 8.03.07.08.32.1-k
BIOS Version : 1.12
Driver Firmware Version : 5.03.13 (496)
Flash BIOS Version : 1.12
Flash FCode Version : 1.16
Flash EFI Version : 1.04
Flash Firmware Version : 4.00.18
Actual Connection Mode : Point to Point
Actual Data Rate : 4 Gbps
PortType (Topology) : NPort
Target Count : 1
PCI Bus Number : 6
PCI Device Number : 1
HBA Status : Online
Host Name : xxxxxxxxxxxxx
HBA Instance : 1
HBA Model : QLA2460
HBA Description : QLA2460 PCI-X 2.0 to 4Gb FC Single Channel
HBA ID : 1-QLA2460
HBA Alias :
HBA Port : 1
Port Alias :
Node Name : 20-00-00-E0-8B-92-FB-B6
Port Name : 21-00-00-E0-8B-92-FB-B6
Port ID : 61-0B-13
Serial Number : RFC0641M26491
Driver Version : 8.03.07.08.32.1-k
BIOS Version : 1.12
Driver Firmware Version : 5.03.13 (496)
Flash BIOS Version : 1.12
Flash FCode Version : 1.16
Flash EFI Version : 1.04
Flash Firmware Version : 4.00.18
Actual Connection Mode : Point to Point
Actual Data Rate : 4 Gbps
PortType (Topology) : NPort
Target Count : 1
PCI Bus Number : 10
PCI Device Number : 1
HBA Status : Online
Please advice how to upgrade firmware for this HBA Card
Edited by: dpprabhuindia on May 14, 2013 7:14 PM

Possible to attach external Esata hard disk on the Imac Quadcore 27?

Is it possible to attach external Esata hard disk on the Imac Quadcore 27? Or any other Imac? The purpose is for video editing, but maybe Firewire 800 is good enough for hd video in Final Cut Pro?

Hi Simen,
The iMac series do not have an ESATA connection and there isn't a way to make a connection inside. The only possible way is to perform surgery on the iMac which
1. probably will not work and
2. almost for sure Invalidate the warranty
This is a fairly common questions however there just isn't a way to do it. If your external drive also has a Firewire or Firewire 800 connection that is your best bet. As you probably know your iMac has a Firewire 800 port and you can daisy chain Firewire devices.
Regards,
Roger

So i only have 8gb and 500gb sata disk its almost full...Is there a way i can get more space on my computer without buying another bigger computer? If so how?

So i only have 8gb and 500gb sata disk its almost full...Is there a way i can get more space on my computer without buying another bigger computer? If so how?

You can install a 1TB HD in your macbook for $65
Ideally getting another external USB HD, a 2TB portable is only $119
Quality 1TB drives are $50 per TB on 3.5" or $65 per TB on 2.5"
Perfect 1TB for $68
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-Hard-Drive/dp/B005J7YA3W/ref=sr_1_ 1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379452568&sr=8-1&keywords=1tb+toshiba
Nice 500gig ultraslim and perfect
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B009F1CXI2/ref=s r_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1377642728&sr=1-1&keywords=toshiba+slim+500gb
2TB portable 2.5" Toshiba for $119
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Connect-Portable-HDTC720XK3C1/dp/B00CGUMS48 /ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1379182740&sr=1-4&keywords=2tb+toshiba
*This one is the BEST external HD available that money can buy:
$75
HGST Touro Mobile 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
http://www.amazon.com/HGST-Touro-Mobile-External-HTOLMX3NA10001ABB/dp/B0062FZ2WS /ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1379185002&sr=1-1&keywords=hitachi+extern a l+hard+drive
Most storage experts agree on the Hitachi 2.5"

PCI SATA disk causes GRUB to fail "loading Stage2..."

Hi,
I'm setting up a small home server using an old PC. The motherboard is an Aopen MX46U2-GN. It has a 40GB IDE HDD and an IDE CD-ROM drive.
I have bought a new 1TB SATA HDD for data storage, and a PCI SATA adapter card because this motherboard has no SATA ports. All of the hardware is working, except it is causing a strange boot problem.
I have a working Arch installation on the IDE drive. I can boot to this, or to the Arch liveCD or install CDROM in the optical drive.
However, if I power up the system with the SATA drive connected to the PCI card, it detects everything but hangs with the message "GRUB loading stage2...."
Powering up without the SATA drive connected is fine - I can then hotplug the SATA drive into the PCI card and it is detected as /dev/sdb. However, unplugging and replugging the drive every time the machine is rebooted is impractical.
I believe from Googling that it is related to the order in which the various drives are detected (hd0,0 etc.) and the new PCI card being detected before the IDE devices??
Question: How do I fix the GRUB installation so I can boot the machine with the SATA drive connected?
Thanks in advance

Hmm... thanks for the advice.
I think you are correct that the new disk is recognised first and therefore becomes sda for Linux and hd0 for grub.
Therefore, I changed the Grub menu.lst entries to hd1,0 etc. (from hd0,0). Booted from CD, chrooted into the partition and reinstalled grub.
Unfortunately it still doesn't work.
Strangely, when the new SATA disk is connected, I can't even boot from the CD-ROM! I get as far as
Boot from CD : Loading stage2 ....
before the system hangs.
Again, if I hotplug the SATA disk after booting from either the CD or the old HDD, I have no problem. Weird.

Transforming G4 in a fileserver with Sata disks is not working

Hi,
I know nothing about building servers or raids or anything but what I do know is that I would like to use my old G4 digital audio 533MHZ as a fileserver.
I've read on many forums you need a PCI sata card but, converters also do exist. I couldn't find why a converter wouldn't work so I bought a IDE to Sata converter since I'm only putting 1X 1TB WD SATA disk in there right now.
This converter cable can only be plugged into the ATA66 IDE, that's why I connected my ATA boot disk with Tiger on the ATA33 and disconnected the optical drive because otherwise Tiger doesn't boot.
The G4 only boots up from this ATA when the SATA is disconnected. With the SATA connected the G4 absolutely wants to boot from the SATA drive giving me a grey screen and nothing else. I was kind of expecting that the G4 would search for a bootable drive and boot from it but it doesn't. The ATA drive jumpers are on Cable Select. The SATA drive has no jumpers.
Next thing I could try is install Tiger or Leopard on the SATA drive. Would this work?
Is this because of the converter I'm using? Is the only way of doing this with a PCI SATA card?
Please enlighten me.

I should've known it wouldn't work with the converter so I bought the Sonnet PCI SATA controller on Amazon.
On the controller I connected my 1TB RED NAS drive and put in my new WIFI networkcard I used before in my G5. (The G5 will get it's internet connection from the G4 trough firewire in the future)
Now I was ready to get started with my fileserver, so I tought.
Every time I booted, the mac would freeze, every time when the screensaver started.
My troubleshooting led me to an faulty Ati Rage 128, 32MB graphic card.
I still had one 16MB laying around from my disassembled G4/400MHZ and now everything was ok.
Little did I know that making this server accessible for my laptop with WIN 7 would be very hard.
Eventually I found the solution on the internet where you have to disable some services on the WIN 7 machine.
One of those services is to disable the Pasword LAN Manager because if you don't Windows will keep asking your credentials without ever connecting to the server.
To my big surprise I noticed that only the Home directory on the MAC was shared and not my 1TB drive!
This is because my server runs on Tiger 10.4.11 where you can't choose the folders you want to share unlike Leopard.
It was hopeless until I found, after long searching the net, a reference to a program called 'Sharepoints' and bingo.
This program enables you to share whatever folder or drive on tiger just like in Leopard.
Now I have full control over my Mac server from WIN 7 and on my Iphone 4, I added an Free FTP app and an app called 'TIOD'.
This last, free, app is truly amazing.
Now I can browse all my shared drives on the MAC from my Iphone.
I can stream movies, and my music on the fly! Very cool.
This G4 is running silent and has only a 200W PSU wich makes it perfect.
Now there would be only 1 thing I want to do and this is to make it a webserver but if the ISP blocks port 80, 81 it seems impossible.
It could be done by using a service for wicht you have to pay but that's not worth it if you just want accessibillity to your files I think.
Or is there another way?
Please let me know.
Thnx.

Connecting a SATA disk to my iMac

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