Don't sweat it ... we've all been new somewhere at sometime before ... you'll find that the drive manufacturer's site is always the best place for info, followed by the PC Pocket Guide (wish I had it here ... little blue book o' PC parts, including every drive made ... great for identifying stuff). And showing that you've done your homework is always a good way to bring folks out of the woodwork with advice.
To answer your questions: (1) Find your mounting brackets on LEM's swap list. Cheap stuff, good folks. Contact me if no one answers your request for a drive bracket -- they should. I got plently of responses for a Quadra 950 mainboard and drive brackets (most likely more rare). (2) Since the drive isn't the last one on the chain, make sure termination is turned off (I.E. in your case, make sure JP6 doesn't have a jumper ... you say it has one, so it must have been at the end of a chain in it's previous life ... take it off and store it somewhere else). You might want to google a bit for info on SCSI termination to understand the concept. I'm not sure about JP7 or JP5 ... can anyone else enlighten us (there's always google, too)? If it came out of another Mac, you might want to leave JP7 and JP5 the way they were. (3)If you put that spare jumper on JP2, you're setting the device to ID2. That should work, as most ZIPs are set to another ID (6 or 5, according to the switch on the back of my external ZIP). I'd make it ID 1 by putting the spare jumper on JP1, but either ID1 or ID2 sound like they'd be OK. (4) What do you want to dual-boot? With Mac OS, just do all of this jumper tweaking, install the drive, install another Mac OS on the additional drive, and use the Startup Disk control panel to reboot to that drive to the other OS. With Linux/m68k or NetBSD/Mac68k, you'd need the latest booter for each respective operating system (you can't boot directly into either ... you need a Mac OS partition for normal booting, then you'd run the respective booter app to kill Mac OS and let the *NIX take over the system). I heard some talk on the NetBSD list a while back about a native booter/installer, but it's not recommended because it might possibly cause your partition table to be corrupted. I think that's what they said about it, anyway. Holler if I messed something up. I haven't had enough coffee yet today. <grin> Cheers, Dan Willson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday, 12, 2002, at 06:25PM, greatful <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Have an Apple/IBM ST325509 (need to find mounting brackets) that I would like to >install as a 2nd HDD (Q650). This is all new territory and I don't want to muck >anything up. The Apple KBase article which references this procedure is of no help >because the jpeg doesn't load (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=36122) >~ IBM's site is a bit more helpful, at least the picture shows up >(http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/dpes/dpesjum.htm). > >Currently there are three (assuming) 'jumpers' across (the little posts) JP7, JP6 and >JP5. Is it as easy as removing the jumper from JP6 (because this will be the second >device [the third is an external zip]) and placing it on JP2 (to set the ID to 1)? Is >there somewhere that would help me understand the intended purpose(s) of JP4, JP5, >JP6 and JP7? > >What kind of questions should I be asking about dual-booting? -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
