on 12/24/03 11:59 AM, chris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have heard of people connecting two hard drives at once to the iMacs >> internal IDE bus, one hard drive replacing the internal CD. It's not too >> simple though, the internal CD doesn't have a standard ribbon cable, so you >> need some sort of adapter. I haven't done it myself, but some people on the >> list probably have.
> I've tried connecting an Apple ROM'd IDE drive inline with the hard > drive, but it still won't boot from the CD. I don't know if maybe when > you hold down C to boot the iMac only looks at IDE bus 1 (the normal one > for the internal CD drive). Since I'm connecting the IDE CD drive as a > slave on the IDE 0 bus with the hard drive, maybe it can't boot from > that. It does read the CD once the Mac is booted, but since I need to > repartition the hard drive, I can't be booting off the hard drive. It does read the CD once booted in the original drive or the second one that you've added? Have you tried makng it boot from the added CD by using the Startup Disk control panel rather than the keyboard shortcut at startup? -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
