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Freecom 160GB External.

Oct 24, 2007 1:23PM PDT

I have an external Hard Drive, as detailed above, that presumably needs drivers to mount in my Mac OS X 10.3 Panther on iBook G3. Can't find any drivers and it's looking maybe as if the drive doesn't have any for Mac OS X. Any thoughts?

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No drivers required
Oct 24, 2007 9:45PM PDT

I believe this drive has a USB 2.0 interface and no power supply.

Unfortunately, your iBook only has USB 1.0 and not enough power up the USB chain to power the drive which could result in a non-mounting drive.

If there is a connection on the drive enclosure for an external power supply, that would cover that problem and the drive would mount with no problem.
I say, No Problem. You would still be left with the slow USB 1 transfer speeds. What is that, 12Mbs?


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Something like that.
Oct 24, 2007 10:19PM PDT

Twelve megs sounds about right.

However, the drive is in fact powered externally; it's a huge brick of a thing actually. Just doesn't appear to be mounting.

Any ideas my man?

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This issue has been solved.
Oct 27, 2007 11:23AM PDT

Upgrading to the latest revision of Panther (10.3.9) solved this, I can now successfully use my external drive.

Thanks for input.