[CUBE] My New Hard Drive

[Kunga]

I have the optical IDE cable dangling outside mine with both drives set 
to "Cable Select". Just put two 160 Maxtor Ultras ($100 each) inside 
both My Cubes. Four Partitions up to the 128 GB Max then named the 
fifth partition above 128 GB zNever. Running Panther 7B74 on the 500 
Jag on the 450. Interesting thing is that while the Jaguar still shows 
the forbidden partition, Panther automatically does not mount it so 
there will never be an issue of accidentally trying to put anything in 
it and blowing up the drive.

The other thing i would like to point out is the reason for using the 
Maxtor Ultra with 8MB buffer. It uses a Ultra Quiet FDB Motor that is 
amazingly silent. I can't recommend enough how quiet this drive is. 
It's as if this drive was made for the Cube. I was using Western 
Digital SE drives up 'til now. They have a distinctive metal on metal 
high frequency grinding sound to them. These Maxtor Fluid Drive 
Bearings never sound like that. They only have a very subtle white 
noise sound that is way more quiet.

JwD seems to be short on details. You boot from the OS X Jaguar install 
CD 1 by holding down the "C" key. Then you switch to the Disk Utility 
where you partition the drive to suit your fancy.

Same procedure with OS 9 Drive Setup from the utility folder on the CD.

I suspect JwD has no experience setting up a new HD. The dealer is also 
at fault for telling him he had a defective drive which is highly 
unlikely and indicates they know nothing about Cubes.

If we knew his new drive's brand and model number, we could tell him 
how to set his jumpers and get him up in a few minutes.

kunga10 (AIM)
kungax (AIM)

On Sep 22, 2003, at 8:16 PM, J.C. Webber III wrote:

> JwD wrote:
>> Greetings:  I've followed the groups advice over time and now I have a
>> problem to ask about.
>>
>> An "expert" (not from this Cube List) suggested that I could install 
>> a new
>> Hard drive by just installing it and booting it up, using my latest 
>> OS CD.
>>
>> I've had No luck doing so. After trying it with a new 120Gg. HD, I 
>> brought
>> the Drive down to my local Apple dealer and asked them to format it 
>> with Mac
>> extended format. They tried and said it was a bad drive.
>>
>> I exchanged it for another... still won't boot from my OS CD.
>>
>> What now? I'm starting to get more money tied-up in mail, insurance, 
>> and the
>> local dealer- then I spent on the new Hard Drive.
>
> I saw someone recommending that you set the drive to 'master', but
> if you have the add-on DVD superdrive from MCE, it's hardwired to be
> the 'master' so I found that I had to set my hard drive to 'slave'.