On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:33 PM, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: OT: Configuring a second internal hard drive (mac g4)? > > >> 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. > > With a PC, all you need to do is install the drive, restart the machine, go > to the disk > management section of the computer management, and initialize the drive. The > computer assigns a > drive letter, does a format and your good to go. > You should be able to leave the jumper on cable select, since it isn't going > onto the same plug > as the C drive > Windows machines need to format new drives before they can be used > I would expect that it would be similar on a MAC, though it might be easier > as well. > > William Robb >
Pretty much exactly the same on the Mac, except partitioning and formatting are done at once by default, not one after the other. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
