On 1/21/09 2:50 PM, Charles Davis of [email protected] sent > > > On Jan 21, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Steve R wrote: > >> >> At 12:06 PM -0600 1/21/09, Kris Tilford posted: >>> On Jan 21, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Steve R wrote: >>> >>>> When the G5 shipped, it had one drive installed in the upper >>>> bay. Is >>>> there any reason to have a one-drive G5 using that upper bay, or >>>> can >>>> I re/install one-drive in the lower easier-to-access bay? >>> >>> Easier access? What are you doing that you need to "access" this HD? >>> When you unplug the cables it twist the lock, it should easily slide >>> downward and out? >> >> The upper bay is harder to get the drive out. The G5 is being lent >> out to a switcher who is constantly bringing her PC that she uses now >> to the neighbour to fix. Since I don't want her lugging my entire >> tower up and down stairs, in and out of cars, I plan on telling her >> to bring only the hard drive when she needs work done. The easiest >> drive bay is the lower one. Apple ships with one drive, in the upper >> bay. Thus the question, is there any reason to have the one drive in >> the upper bay, or can it be reinstalled in the lower easier-to-access >> bay? >> >> Steve R >> > I can think of no possible reason to avoid using the lower bay. > > [Yeah! Cable select, and you might get the WRONG connector on the > HD ---- BUT if it's just a single HD setup, Apple's are smart > enough to ignore that and just go ahead and operate.] > > Chuck D.
This would be an obvious issue for G4s and any other Mac using PATA drives. The G5 uses (as you know), SATA drives, which are one-to-one re: the bus. There is no cable select issue in SATA - one drive per cable. There are two separate connectors (representing two busses) for both drive bays. One is called Bus 0, the other bus 1. I do not believe the Mac favors one over the other - it looks for an OS, and that is that. Use that lower bay as the boot drive and the upper bay for backup, scratch, RAID, etc. Apple *probably* uses the upper bay as OEM so that the lower, more accessible bay is readily available for the end-user, precisely why the OP wanted to use it. Best regards, Dana --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
