Adding a 2nd Drive

Snow White jj4 at sympatico.ca
Sun Oct 5 06:36:41 PDT 2003


If I remember correctly it must be slave or master but not Cable 
Select.  It would only runn at 66 mhz if you attatch it to the same ATA 
bus as your DVD/CD drive.  As a second HD on the same bus as your 
current HD (slave or master) it will communicate at full speed (ie 100 
or 167 mhz).

jj

PS: still not believing you will see all 160 - just ther first 128 gig.

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 08:07 AM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote:

> Adding a 2nd Drive
> From: rich northouse <rnorthouse at wi.rr.com>
> Message-Id: <2AAFBAD3-F695-11D7-9EE3-00039363A87E at wi.rr.com>
>
> Hi Guys/Gals,
>
> I need some help.  I bought an Ultra ATA 160gig Maxtor drive (7200 rpm)
> and thought of using it in my G4  (733 mhz, 1.2 meg, 40 gig ). I have a
> 9.2 and a 10.2.6 partition.
>
> I thought of using the 160 as a slave but since it would then
> apparently run at 66 mhz, am I better off making it the master?
>
> Another question:  Do I set the jumpers for cable?  or master/slave?
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
>
> rich



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