Should be simple. The PowerMac G4 1.25 Ghz should have both Ultra ATA/66 and Ultra ATA/ 100 busses with IDE drives configured for cable select, at which point it's a simple matter to fit the drive, power up the system, format and partition the new drive. Here's a document on physically installing the drive:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1815 And a couple of articles on differentiating the Power Mac G4 models: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42739 The earlier models with Ultra ATA/66 only presented some difficulties with today's drives as Ultra ATA/66 could only format a drive up to a volume sized at 128 Gbytes (no matter what the physical capacity of the drive), but you should not have any difficulties with your system. Godfrey On Jun 24, 2008, at 8:18 AM, [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. > Paul > -- 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.
