My reply to you IS IN CAPS AT THE QUESTION/ANSWER below
--- On Mon, 9/22/08, MichaelP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: MichaelP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: learning about hard drives on a G4 sawtooth
> To: "G3-5 List" <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 6:18 PM
> I'm learning my way around OS 10.3.9 on a G4 sawtooth.
> It came working OK with a single Maxtor 30GB drive
> and I screwed up the system as I tried out various things.
> I picked up a similar drive,__ drive B,-- got its contents
> corectly updated and working.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ? Did you install an OS ? Can you
start up from it?
and for the moment it's sitting in the second bay and operating
as an independent hard drive should.
IS IT ON THE DESKTOP?
>
> I initialized the orig drive -drive A still sitting in the
> main drive position
YOU SOUND LIKE A WINDOZ USER - IT makes no difference which
position or which is A or B on the Mac
-- did my thing to get both OS 9.2 and 10.39 in
DOES THIS mean you installed the OSs?
place -- but it's
> not yet working properly.
WHAT SPECIFICLY is the problem
>
> I havn't made up my mind wether to keep A and B working
> separately.
HERE YOU say separately, they are all separately, what do you mean
> perhaps wih A perhaps operating only on OS 9.2 , or whether
> to combine A
> and B as master/slave with appropriate jumper settings.
THIS HAS ME alarmed - you MUST have them in M/S. Not
both as master or both as slave
So
> what might
> those settings be ? I know that I can get hold of a 120GB
> drive or even
> bigger, but I havn't got total mastery of how to get a
> single drive going
> with the update disks I have around beginning with OS 8 and
> OS 9.1 etc.
> (Point being that I don't own a straight install CD for
> the G4)
POINT BEING you need to retell us your disks and CD/DVDs
Good luck.
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