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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Discs eject without reading and no external HD
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 865025" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Check that site harry gave you a link for, if that's not your particular model PowerBook. If your PowerBook is prior to Sep '03, it likely will not work with any of today's USB drives.</p><p></p><p>USB 2.0 ports are backwards compatible with devices that use earlier versions of USB so that your USB 1.1 mouse will work on a USB 2.0 port. </p><p>But USB 2.0 devices are 'typically' not backward compatible with earlier ports so a USB 2.0 drive will not work on a USB 1.1 port.</p><p>You may run into the same issue trying to find an optical drive that will work under USB 1.1.</p><p></p><p>As harry stated check into a FW drive - all PB G4's had at least FW400 and many FW 800.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 865025, member: 24160"] Check that site harry gave you a link for, if that's not your particular model PowerBook. If your PowerBook is prior to Sep '03, it likely will not work with any of today's USB drives. USB 2.0 ports are backwards compatible with devices that use earlier versions of USB so that your USB 1.1 mouse will work on a USB 2.0 port. But USB 2.0 devices are 'typically' not backward compatible with earlier ports so a USB 2.0 drive will not work on a USB 1.1 port. You may run into the same issue trying to find an optical drive that will work under USB 1.1. As harry stated check into a FW drive - all PB G4's had at least FW400 and many FW 800. [/QUOTE]
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