[G4] G4 second drive "unsupported"

[sr ferenczy]

ATAPI started as a specific formulation of ATA for EIDE CD-ROM and tape 
drives. ATAPI allowed CD_ROMs and Hard disks to coexist on the same 
bus.

Now, i have no clue what the difference is. as far as i know apple 
still uses atapi optical drives, and it seems that there are some (but 
few) atapi hard drives (the vast majority are ata or ultra ata) so 
perhaps apple supports atapi optical drives, but not atapi hard drives.

sandor


On Jun 3, 2004, at 7:39 AM, Dale Hoffman wrote:

>> A friend just called me with a problem installing a second internal 
>> hard drive in his G4 Sawtooth. He can't get it to initialize - Drive 
>> Setup says it is "unsupported".
>>
>> He says the drive is an ATAPI 80GB Western Digital, but I've never 
>> heard of an ATAPI fixed drive. I'm thinking he may have misplaced the 
>> jumpers designating Master Slave, but I won't know until I visit 
>> tomorrow. Any other ideas?
>>
>
> What about this "ATA" vs "ATAPI" issue? What's the difference and how 
> might it affect the compatibility? The drive was bought at a local 
> super computer store so I doubt there was any sales assistance 
> involved.
> DaleH
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