[G4] Adding Multiple ATA133 Controllers

[Mel]

I'm not sure about the MDD Macs, but I have a beige G3 that I don't 
have any hard drives connected to the on-board bus, and it boots just 
fine. I think as long as the controllers are bootable you should be OK.
Mel

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 07:14  PM, Brian Conner wrote:

> I have a MDD G4 (dual 1.42) and I want to build a four drive RAID in
> addition to the boot drive. I'd like to add two SIIG ATA133 RAID 
> controller
> cards and one SIIG ATA133 (non-RAID) controller card. I'll put two 
> drives in
> the Master positions on each of the RAID cards, then move the boot 
> drive to
> the second optical bay and put it on the ATA133 (non-RAID) card.
>
> My question: If I configure the system this way, will it boot? IOW, 
> with no
> drives connected to any of the Mac's IDE busses, will it refuse to 
> boot?
>
> The controllers are not that expensive, but I'd rather not throw away 
> $300+
> on a lark that has no chance of succeeding.
>
> The reason for doing this is probably obvious, but I want to create a 
> RAID
> that is fast enough to handle uncompressed video without whimpering.
>
> I suppose if the G4 needs to have at least one drive on its busses, I 
> could
> replace the IDE cable on the ATA100 bus with a longer one that will 
> reach
> the optical bay.
>
>
> Brian Conner
>
>
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