If I add the new drive to the machine and configure it as cable select or slave does it matter which of the two drives is the startup drive? If so, then I need to configure the new drive as master or 0 and the original drive as slave, 2 or cable select? Or both drives as cable select?
BTW, the manual says the G4 does not work with Ultra ATA devices set for cable select mode. Harry Tuesday, January 6, 200411:01 PMLee Larsonleelarson at mac.com >On Jan 6, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > >> If I get a new drive I'm going to install everything fresh. But I >> gather >> I shouldn't try to keep the old drive too? Why? > >There's no need to remove the original drive. > >I have a computer similar to yours, except mine is the G4/450 instead >of the G4/400. Mine has three hard drives in it right now. Two of them >are on the main hard drive controller and one of them is where you have >a Zip drive. (I removed the Zip because I never used it.) > >Any standard 3.5 inch IDE (ATAPI) hard drive should work as a second >drive on the main controller. If you're using the ribbon cable that >came with your computer, be sure to set the jumper on the drive to >cable select or slave because the first drive should be the master. > >I don't think the controller supports drives larger than 120 GB. I have >two 80 GB drives on it right now, and it works fine. > > > >| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >| be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >| This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
