I have a My Book for Mac hard drive that used to be connected to an Intel-based Mac. Now it is attached to a G4 Titanium Powerbook and is seen and working. I would like to try intalling the Western Digital utilities software on this older machine running OS X 10.5.8 PowerPC.
The current version of Smartware doesn’t support PowerPC any more. I was able to download version 1.3.3.6 through WD via a link in this Community area. (The posting engine is preventing me from putting the address here.)
After install it crashes immediately on running it. The menu bar icon appears and lets you view the installed version but Smartware itself won’t run.
I tinkered with the download link and found that 1.3.3.8 was still on the server. This version installs and runs and can analyze my internal disk but it doesn’t see the external hard drive even though it is mounted on the desktop and appears in System Profiler. It is formatted at HFS+ Journaled with a GUID type partition table.
The only reason I care to use Smartware is so I can change the device settings. I assume since I’m not interested in actually booting on a PowerPC machine, the GUID partition type is of no consequence.
Is there any version of Smartware still available for download that is later than version 1.3.3.8 and still compatible with PowerPC OS X 10.5.8?
