[G4] Swapping drives mirrored doors and FW800 dual processor G4s

[sr ferenczy]

the boot drive does not have to be master, that is correct.

the advantage to having only one drive on a bus is purely performance. 
ATA shares the bandwidth for both drives on a bus, and in addition, can 
only access ONE drive per bus at a time (this is still the big limiter 
in the SCSI vs. ATA debates-SCSI can access multiple drives per bus 
simultaneously)

try your drives with master/slave settings (making sure the master 
drive is always the last on the cable) and see if that works.

good luck

sandor


On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 09:53  AM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> On 10/23/03 11:02 AM, "Tracker at aol.com" <Tracker at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Additionally, some Macs will refuse to recognize a drive set to CS if 
>> there
>> is a second drive also set to CS on the same bus ribbon. In that 
>> case, try
>> setting the drives to Master and Slave and install them on the IDE 
>> bus ribbon
>> with
>> the Master drive closest to the mother board.
>
>
> Am I understanding it correctly that "Master" doesn't necessarily have 
> to be
> the boot drive?
>
> Is there any advantage to having one drive on each IDE bus (this box 
> has
> room for FOUR IDE drives on two separate carriers).
>
>
> Jim Robertson
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