"B. Dowler" wrote:
>
> > Have just installed a newer, larger hard drive into my PowerBase 180. I
> > would like to keep the older smaller drive as well. I have installed the
> > proper cabeling and everything works fine except for the fact that no
> > matter what I do, I can not get both drives to be recognized by the
> > computer at the same time. If one has the jumper set to master and the
> > other to slave, the machine boots up off of the master drive but will not
> > acknowledge that the other drive exists, and visa versa. I know that when
> > I did this with my wife's machine, a PC, shudder!!!, I had to get into the
> > BIOS setup to tell the machine to recognize the other drive. This, of
> > course is not usual with a Mac as usually all of this happens
> > automatically. What needs to be done to make this work?
>
This sounds odd. Especially for a Mac/Mac Clone.
I would suggest going on the web and finding the technical manuals for the
drives and read them. Sometimes a drive has
a particular quirk which is an easy fix. I keep a binder with all the technical
info on all the stuff I've crammed into my PTP
handy for quick reference when something crashes.
-- Pat
Space/Time Art
http://spacetimeart.com
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