Thanks Paul that worked well.
Regards
Clive
On 05/01/2011, at 7:47 AM, Paul K wrote:
While I can't say for sure what is going on I can say that I have
had sketchy results adding additional drives to G4 towers of
various flavours.
I believe it is the IDE controllers.
The main 100MHz bus sometimes hates second drives attached to it
and in my opinion will affect the boot drive's performance if it
does work anyway.
Depending on model there is a 66MHz bus which is often vacant, good
for dumb storage but I would not have software there due to the
speed hit on this slower bus.
The 33MHz bus that the optical drive is on also can take a HDD but
the speed.........
I made these issues go away by purchasing an ACard 133MHz (2 port,
supports 4 drives) IDE controller from Daniel Kerr. Sonnet make
good ones too.
I use this alone, I'm out of love with those onboard controllers ;-)
Good Luck
Paul
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