[G4] Swapping SCSI to IDE in G4 Sawtooth-HELP!
Richard Klein
richspk at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 19:14:29 PDT 2007
On 10/6/07, Jim S <jimroom at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I was wondering if anyone would know how to swap out a SCSI hard drive with
> an IDE. The issue is that the connector and ribbon is different for a SCSI
> drive than it is for a IDE drive. At the moment there is a SCSI card that
> the 2 internal Hard drives are connected to.
> How do I change the ribbon/connectors and where, so that I can install the
> new IDE drive?
>
> Is there any documentation on this? Any how to's? Visual guides? Anything
> that will help me.
Jim,
Take a look at this page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75312
If your Sawtooth doesn't have IDE cables in it already, you should be
able to use regular PC IDE cables, available at any computer store.
--
Rich
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