At work, I was asked to install an IBM Deskstar 120 GXP 82.3 GB
hard drive (IC35L080AVVA07) as the slave drive in a PowerMac G4/450
(AGP Graphics) with 192 MB RAM and running OS 9.0.2. This machine
currently has an IBM Deskstar 20 GB hard drive (DPTA-372050) installed
as the master. After following the directions to set the drive
jumpers, the PowerMac started up, both drives spun up, but the screen
remained a blank white. No sad Mac, no question mark, nothing. I then
set the new 82.3 GB drive as master and only plugged it in, hoping to
avoid a possible conflict of having 2 drives in the system. Again,
just a white screen after the drive spun up. I suspect either the BIOS
needs updating, some other Firmware needs updating, or the ATA drivers
need to be updated to control this very large drive. The machine is
used in the video editing department and is not even connected to the
web. This is why nothing has been updated since the box was opened.
The original MacOS 9.0.2 and whatever Firmware revision shipped with
this machine, is still what is currently installed. Has anyone run
into a problem adding a large hard drive on their older G4? If so,
what did you do for a solution? What, explicitly, will I need to do to
get the drive recognized and installed? Now that I think of it, the
new drive is ATA-100, while I bet the logic board supports ATA-33 only,
but I would assume this wouldn't prevent the drive from running, it
just wouldn't move data as fast as it theoretically could. If this
assumption is wrong and I will need an ATA-100 controller card, then
please let me know this too.
Another quick question. Is there any application that is broken when
moving from MacOS 9.0.2 to 9.2.2? They use Adobe Premiere and cannot
afford to have that stop functioning by moving up to 9.2.2. I'd like
to recommend they make this upgrade move, but don't want to do it and
then some of their apps stop working!
Michael Z.
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