Just added a Maxtor 60GB ATA/EIDE drive via Ultratek/66 card (thanks Jeff W.) on my 8500/PL G3/384 MB/OS 8.6 and kept the original 2 GB SCSI drive. I see that the system uses the second SCSI chain though the PCI bus and gave it the ID of "0 ". My whole SCSI chain configuration looks like this: Original 2 gig HD Bus 0, ID 0 CD-ROM Bus 0, ID 3 SCSI Zip drive Bus 1, ID 6 Maxtor 60 gig HD Bus 2, ID 0
I left the jumper setting on the Maxtor as shipped to "cable select" and hooked the drive up to the "master" connector on the cable. Since the Install guide doesn't give much Mac info. I want to make sure this set-up is OK for allowing the drive to be bootable. My understanding is that this set-up should allow bootability because it is on it's own SCSI bus whereas if it was sharing the same bus "0" as the 2 gig it would have to be set to "slave". Any reason to change this configuration? Is it even possible for a SCSI drive and ATA to share the same bus? Also I am thinking I may install OS X on this new drive sometime in the near future so I want to partition it. I remember seeing somewhere that it should be installed on the 1st partition but what size should it be? What other advice can anyone give in terms of what other partitions I should consider. The largest partitioned block will be allocated to audio, video and digital still image storage (provided I can get a USB PCI card that works- see my other post). The 2 gig will still be my main start-up drive for basic computing tasks. Thanks, Mike -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
