[G4] Initializing a new Hard Drive/OSx

[Wilkin, Wayne (Mass)]

I know I will have people correct me if I wrong but aren't the drives in
g4's ata's? If so should it not be a master/slave thing?

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> From: 	Bill Metcalfe
> Reply To: 	Power Macintosh G4 List
> Sent: 	Tuesday, August 5, 2003 11:55 PM
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> Subject: 	[G4] Initializing a new Hard Drive/OSx
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> Thanks for all the suggestions,but I seem to have screwed up the 
> machine to the point where all your help is unavailing.
> Several months ago, I upgraded the old Hard Drive to OS 9.2.2 by 
> downloading bit and pieces from 9.0.4 on. Somewhere in there, the CD 
> burner ceased working. Since then The G4 will not start up with the 
> original OS 9 disk. It will start up with an OS 10.2 and a disk for 
> OS X that came with my son's reconditioned iBook.Out of all the 
> possible Drive Set-Ups I can open, the only one that seems to offer 
> hope is that which came with the iBook; It shows both the old and the 
> new drives, only it says that the new drive is the start up drive and 
> the old drive can be initialized. I think that the old drive is still 
> numbered 0 and the new 1.With this information, I am wondering if I 
> could switch the jumpers around and maybe cause enough confusion that 
> it might allow me to initialize the new drive.But I read somewhere 
> that it was potentially dangerous to use a CD of an OS for another 
> type of Mac. In this case, an iBook.
>   Now,if there is a disk in the cd drive, the computer will only start 
> up from that disk, and then it takes about 5 minutes while it 
> displays several icons to show that it does not know from which disk 
> to start up.
> 
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