Andy Goldstein1
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Q: Internal HD Configuration?

Folks,

 

A few weeks ago I replaced the HD in my old 15" G4 PowerBook (M9421LL/A) with a 160GB Seagate drive. The drive identifies itself as an ST9160821A. The new drive works, but ever since I installed it the machine has been slow to come out of a sleep state. After opening the lid, the machine is mostly unresponsive for a solid 30 seconds. Sometimes I can get basic window response, but most significant actions give me the beach ball until 30 seconds are up. I'm 99% sure what's going on is the software is taking a page fault or making some other HD reference, and the HD isn't ready yet. The old HD (and most other laptop HDs I've used) take 10 seconds or less to come ready.

 

I'm now wondering if I configured the HD incorrectly, and I'm getting hit with a driver timeout and retry every time the machine wakes up. The Seagate drive has a jumper to let you configure the drive as master, slave or cable select. Any advice on which configuration I should be using? (My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I believe I used cable select. While I was installing it I tried a different option, probably master, which did not work at all. Other possible hints: The System Profiler identifies the CD/DVD reader as unit 0 and the HD as unit 1 on the ATA bus. Hmmm...)

 

Thanks - Andy

PowerBook G4 (15-inch FW800), Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 2:34 PM

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  • by BGreg,

    BGreg BGreg Oct 16, 2012 4:38 AM in response to Andy Goldstein1
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    Oct 16, 2012 4:38 AM in response to Andy Goldstein1

    I don't recall using a jumper on the last Seagate drive I put in a PowerBook. These instructions say cable select or none should work.  You might try using none to see if that works better.

  • by Andy Goldstein1,

    Andy Goldstein1 Andy Goldstein1 Oct 16, 2012 7:15 AM in response to BGreg
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    Oct 16, 2012 7:15 AM in response to BGreg

    Thanx for the pointer. Unfortunately the Seagate instructions are only in reference to PCs. The same documentation for jumper configuration is on the drive itself. The old drive I removed is a Fujitsu with no documentation, so I couldn't tell how it was configured. I'm trying to gather as much information as I can ahead of time, because opening up this model is such a chore.

     

    - Andy