G’day,
I am wanting to take the 1TB WD drive inside my WD Home Edition and put it inside my G5 Power Mac. This works.
I then want to take the Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 250GB SATA/150 HDD from my G5, and put it into the WD enclosure. This doesn’t work.
If I connect power to the enclosure with the Maxtor inside, the light fades up/down for a short while, then comes on solid.
BUT, if I connect either USB or Firewire, the light just flashes on and off at approx 1 second intervals. (Kind of, flashes on solid, then “bounces” off)
Is this a hardware limitation by WD to stop other drives being used in their enclosures?
The Maxtor has a “jumper” on 1 pin - this doesn’t seem to come off, and all of the pin diagrams show it in place (ie whether master, slave, etc), so I don’t think that’s the issue.
I’d love an answer one way or the other… Hoping there is a work-around, as otherwise I’ll have to buy a powered USB hub for my intended AppleTV setup.
cheers
cosmic