[G4] Swapping SCSI to IDE in G4 Sawtooth-HELP!

Jim S jimroom at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 20:05:08 PDT 2007


Thanks Rich,
 that helps out :)

That definitely sheds some light on the problem.

thanks from California. Where are you?

Jim



On 10/6/07, Richard Klein <richspk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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