New G5's Installing an additional hard drive in the new G5's is the slickest thing I have ever seen. You have one jumper to set to tell the drive it is a slave, and that is it! Two wires to plug in, a tab to rotate downward to hold the drive in place, close the door and start. The Operating system opens a dialogue saying that a new drive has been installed and how do you want it formatted. Done. The entire process didn't take five min., this was so much easier than what I remember from before.
Apple continues to make things simpler, I grin at learning the simplicity of the newer computers. John R. On Dec 1, 2004, at 9:07 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > It's a long shot, but I just installed a 120GB drive too, and it had a > series of jumper options (Master, Slave, Other one), and then another > series of jumper options that did the same, but restricted the size to > 32GB. I presume for old legacy machines that have problems. > > Anyway, you might just have the thing set to 32GB. To fix it, it was > more than just moving the jumper, I had to repartition in a different > way (repartitioning the same way led to no change). This was under > linux though, so the Mac may not try to be clever about the > repartition. > > Hen > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Bill Holt wrote: > >> Did you use the Apple hard drive setup utility on this? >> >>> From: Glenn Hoehler <glenn at insightbb.com> >>> Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >>> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:30:37 -0500 >>> To: MacGroup <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>> Subject: MacGroup: Size of Hard Drive >>> >>> Hi Folks >>> >>> I have just added a 120 GB internal Western digital HD to my G4 - >>> 450 MHz 384 MB memory. OS X 10.3.6 This is a second hard drive that >>> is >>> installed in this machine. Other drive being 80GB internal. Need >>> larger >>> drive for some dvd burning. After starting up the computer, the disk >>> utility shows this new drive as only 31.5 GB. What is my problem? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Glenn >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >>> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
