External Seagate drive not being recognized!

[spider]

Hi all,

Hope somebody can shed some light on this.

I just picked up a 2.5 Seagate Momentus 80gig drive along with a case. I connected to my PB 1.67 and it starting emitting a beeping sound, about 3 beeps per second. I thought that maybe the case was bad (cheap Taiwan product) so I got a better case, and the same thing happens.

I also have a PC here and the drive is recognized immediately and I formatted the drive FAT and NTFS, but the beeping persists with my PB. Running OSX 10.4.8

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

[SpookTheHamster]

USB or Firewire?

My Powerbook would never mount USB drives, they'd just spin and spin but nothing would happen.

 

[polevault139]

I know PPC computers can only boot off of Firewire. But they should be able to read USB. IMO i think it would work if you were connected through firewire

 

[spider]

hmmm, interesting. Thanks for posting.

The case only has USB, so maybe a case with firewire is the answer. I can't get anything to happen at all with USB, drive doesn't show up on my desktop and it beeps for as long as it is connected.

 

[2nyRiggz]

If it is working on another computer then you should take the HD back(OSX can mount an External with USB)....those beeps you hear is telling you something important



Bless

 

[spider]

thanks, you're right. Don't really like it when anything is beeping incessantly!

I'll probably take the drive back but this whole thing doesn't make much sense to me. I doubt there is anything wrong with the drive as it works perfectly on a PC, so the problem is probably with the case which is supposed to be compatible with OSX. Is there any reason in the world I would need to find a driver to make this work?

 

[SpookTheHamster]

Is it just something about my PB then? It's never been able to mount a USB drive, ever.