[G4] Putting an ATA HD in Zip drive bay?

[Mel Krewall]

Vicki,
If the firewire did not have a hardware failure, you might be able to 
resolve it with a hardware reset. Shut down your computer, then hold 
down the programmer's switch and press the power button to boot the 
machine. The power button light should flash, indicating the reset was 
successful. This might restore your firewire, it did for my 
Quicksilver.
Mel

"The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a 
flagstick on top."
~ Pete Dye

On Oct 16, 2004, at 6:35 AM, VS wrote:

> At 22.49 -0400 04-10-15, john wrote:
>> The manual for my AGP Graphics G4 says not to put more than 3 hard 
>> drives in the lower drive bays. Presumably from power consumption 
>> considerations...is this a hard and fast rule?
>>
>> Related question: Is it possible to put a hard drive in the Zip drive 
>> bay (lower bay of optical drive carrier)?
>
> I have put a third hard drive in the ZIP drive bay of my G4 (AGP, 500 
> MHz), and it is a little bit slower, because the bus is a bit slower, 
> but that was no problem for me (also I put my oldest and slowest drive 
> in that position). Here's a good place to read all about fixing 
> unorthodox things with the mac:
> http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
>
> The reason for me to choose this set up was that I have no working 
> Firewire (sigh!) and that I didn't want to spend money on that 
> ATA-card (every piece of hardware is more expensive in Sweden than in 
> USA...) just to be able to use three drives.
>
> / Vicki
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