Hi all,
I may have finally hit the wall so to speak, in my attempts at
keeping my trusty old G4 (dual 450 mystic) alive. A recent attempt to
upgrade my video card to a flashed Radeon 9800 pro that required
patching into the power supply via the connector cables that service
the original cd/dvd drive (upgraded to Pioneer 106D). The original
cable also provided an extension for plugging into an optional zip
drive or other optical device, which I have dedicated to 2 internal
2tb drives via a seritek pci sata card (2 port internal only). The
Radeon video card relies on yet another jumper cable to patch into
the optical power circuit which physically works, but I lose both
SATA drives (won't mount) when powering up. Oddly enough, if only one
drive is connected I am able to boot from it regardless of which
drive it is so I doubt there are any master/slave issues. WOuld like
to resolve this issue so I can renew backing up the SATAs and try a
Leopard upgrade on one. DOes anyone know if this is a voltage issue?
The easiest fix that I see would be to disconnect the Pioneer optical
drive and put it in an externally powered box but I have no idea if
that will work? Thanks
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