On Dec 30, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
>> can be installed in a G$ Sawtooth? Do they have to be slaved >> together? It appears they do have to slaved together, since I only >> see one ATA slot on the motherboard. I do have an external Firewire >> hard drive attached to the G4 now, but I want to dedicate that to an >> iBook I have. >> > > It's built for two (one master, one slave), but you can expand on > that. > > Take out the zip drive and put one there (slaved to the CD/DVD > drive). Who uses zip drives anymore? Or if you have no zip drive, > then you have an empty slot just waiting for a hard drive. The IDE > cable probably even has an unused connector. The basic machine has provision for four total IDE drives: two on the fast HD bus, two on the slower optical bus. The physical machine has provision for four total HDs, with two IDEs in the back on a two-high carrier, and two SCSIs in the middle and front on single-high carriers. Using every possible combination, you can install six HDs: four IDEs and two SCSIs. But, you give up the optical do do that, and some versions of MacOS will not react politely if the expected, and required optical drive is missing. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
