Thanks Godders. I still have those directions from last time you showed me how to do this:-). At that time I replaced the startup drive. So now I'll have 1250 gig in the box and another 1500 in the desktop firewire drives. Everything will be backed up, and I'll sleep better. No smiley. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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.
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