the ibook chronicles ep1 - my HDD wont Detect

[hansolo669]

thought i'd spice up the title a bit

on a more serious note i have a ibook g4 and finaly got a (working!) power adapter for it (long story)
having replaced the known bad HDD i proceeded to put in a known working hdd (i tested it and formatted it right before i put it in) much to my surprise when i tried to install my copy of osx server (10.4) the hdd was not detected(by disk util)! when i tired it with a couple other spare hdd's i have lying around same result!
i highly doubt its the IDE controller thats at fault here (the comp would be freaking out yes?) so my guess is that either:
A: osx server (or my version) is failing at recognizing any internal drive
or
B: the connector cable is shot

i am also cloning my power macs hdd to a external (USB) drive to see if i can boot that, and get some sort of useability out of this thing.
i will also give my debian cd a go (more or less for the heck of it)

 

[hansolo669]

well to continue the story
the HDD to motherboard cable is shot.
carbon copy cloner can not, in fact make USB ppc bootable clones.
unfortunately it seems no one sells this cable (ebay is not an option).
so it appears that unless one of the good gents in the PPC forum step forward with a idea(or you know...a donation of this cable ) this project will have to be put on hold (at least until i can afford a fw HDD enclosure)
thoughts?

 

[666sheep]

carbon copy cloner can not, in fact make ppc bootable clones.

You should do RTFM better, because CCC does it perfectly

 

[hansolo669]

You should do RTFM better, because CCC does it perfectly

odd

oh wait

by ppc bootable clones i meant USB ppc bootable clones (i fixed it)

goodness /me smacks face

as for an update, i managed to find a store that sells the exact part! any one ever bought from we love macs?

 

[666sheep]

oh wait

by ppc bootable clones i meant USB ppc bootable clones (i fixed it)

It's not a CCC's fault. It's limitation of your hardware. Some PPC Macs are booting from USB, some do not. Mostly these with USB 2.0 do. My PM G5 and eMac booted off USB without problems (and OF hacks) but my PB 1.67 didn't want to.

 

[hansolo669]

It's not a CCC's fault. It's limitation of your hardware. Some PPC Macs are booting from USB, some do not. Mostly these with USB 2.0 do. My PM G5 and eMac booted off USB without problems (and OF hacks) but my PB 1.67 didn't want to.

hmm odd, afaik this ibook has USB 2.0. though i think it has more to do with the OF ver. rather than the support (or lack of) USB 2.0, perhaps this ibook has a older/non-usb-boot-support OF?