[G4] Re: G4 How to set your hard drive to master

[jennifer friede]

Got it! Thank you for all of your wonderful responses. Now they make  
sense. Thank you!!

Happy Holidays,

Jennifer

On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:14 PM, Daniel Brieck Jr. wrote:

> As a general rule of thumb "Never use Cable select mode" it can  
> just cause trouble. Set it up on your own so that you are 100%  
> certain that things are behaving as they are supposed to.
>
> Here is a good diagram and explanation of the set-up being asked  
> about.
>
> Ignore the Brand of the hard drive, just focus on master and Slave  
> idea (where the jumpers are on the back of the hard drive) and the  
> graphic at the bottom of the page showing how the cables are  
> connected.
>
> http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/ata_cable_select.html
>
> Set up your hard drive the same...
>
> So the connector farthest from the Mac mother board is the master  
> end of the cable, so if you have a drive plugged in there it should  
> be set to master on the pins.
>
> The connector in the middle is the Slave, and yes anything  
> connected there should be set as slave on the device...
>
> Now before you go and change your jumpers on the drive make sure  
> you look and your particular drive, because you can't assume that  
> the jumper setting are the same for your drive as shown in the web- 
> page link above. Most modern hard drives will have a nice graphic  
> or some kind of guidelines on the drive it-self in terms of how the  
> jumpers should be set for your drive to get master / slave mode. If  
> it is not written on the drive somewhere then go to the drive  
> manufactures website or look at the documentation that came with  
> the hard drive to find the correct jumper settings...
>
> Once you have it all set up then go to the "Disk Utility" to see if  
> the drive shows up. you may have to format it in order for it show  
> up as usable...
>
> let us know if you need more help...
>
> Daniel J. Brieck Jr.
>
> On Dec 6, 2005, at 3:52 PM, jennifer friede wrote:
>
>> I have a PowerMac G4 and my master hard drive is set at 20 GB when I
>> originally purchased. I want to upgrade my master hard drive. I
>> purchased a 250 GB Maxtor ATA/133 7200RPM 16MB. My computer doesn't
>> recognize the drive when I installed the 250 GB hard drive in P2.
>>
>> Does this have something to do with the jumper cable? I'm confused
>> with the master/slave part. If anyone can help me out with  
>> examples or
>> descriptions or links. I've done research online and found a lot of
>> information but I couldn't understand what I'm not getting at.
>>
>> I have already purchased the same hard drive for my slave and already
>> installed the proper firmware to recognize the capacity of the GB
>> size.
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