Thanks Mat. I guess I should take a look at the startup drive when I get it out and see if that's configured for cable select or master. I installed that drive myself a year or so ago without touching it. So it's set to whatever configuration the Seagate drives ship with. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Mat Maessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 6/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've run out of hard drive space on all but my startup drive, so it's time > > to > add more. I have > four firewire drives on my desk already, and I still have > an > empty second drive bay in my > > dual 1.25 G4 Mac. So I bought a 750 gig IDE ATA-6 Seagate Barracuda, and > > I'm > going to > install it internally in the top half of the lower drive bay. > ($138 > at 4allmemory.com). Do I > > have to do anything to configure the new drive so the Mac knows it's not > > the > startup > > drive? I saw some mention of "jumpers" in an on line article, but it wasn't > clear. I'm hoping > someone here can tell me if I need to do any more than > screw > it into the bay and connect > it to the second ribbon plug. > > You should be able to leave the drive jumpers in the "cable select" > position and have it work. That has worked for my G4 here at work, and > my G5 at home. > > -Mat > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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