[G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings ( + )!( + )

I have a Drive that when I first installed it there was something in 
the doc. that came with it that talked about Master/Slave which turned 
out to be when it was being installed into a WINTEL box.

So bottom line is, if it shows up in the window when you startup "Disk 
Utility" just go ahead and format the drive. Even if it is a very large 
drive, 300GB it will only format as 128GB

My drive was Maxtor 200GB drive so after formatting it as a 128GB drive 
I got a firewire box and reformatted it as a full 200GB drive.
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On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Joseph Glynn wrote:

> I'm not sure how to format the new drive in OS10.4.
>  From everything I have tried to read on installing a second WD160HD 
> as a slave to my Seagate Barricuda 80HD Master on a G4 QS, I think I'm 
> supposed to partition it (format it?). If I RAID it that will erase 
> all my info on my old 80HD (that would be bad because I can't back up 
> to my external HD or burn to DVD). I'm not sure about how many 
> partitions to pick (is one OK?). I think I'm best using the Mac OS 
> Extended (journaled) option in the Format: I see the option to Install 
> Mac OS9 Disk Drivers so I checked that. I'm just waiting for someone 
> that knows more, to say that's wrong or to give me the green light 
> before I melt everything down on accident.
> I have called Apple but they want $49.00 for every problem and I don't 
> have much extra cash for 100 problems.
> Thanks for the help so far,
> Joe
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Joseph Glynn" <jglynn40 at sprintpcs.com>
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." 
> <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Sent: 10/7/07 6:13 PM
> Subject: RE: [G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD
>
> For the Disk Utility I'm not sure what settings I should use for the
> RAID Set Name: ?
> Volume Format: ?
> RAID Type: Mirrored Raid Set
>                  Striped Raid Set
>              Or Concatenated Disk Set
> I was having problems with my original 80Gbytes HD, because it is so 
> full, so I'm trying to use the new HD as a back up so I can get my 
> files on a DVD or CD or if my new firewire port works my external 
> Lacie 200GB HD.
> Lots of options not sure best choice.
> Thanks for all the help I'm new at all this!
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Joseph Glynn" <jglynn40 at sprintpcs.com>
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." 
> <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Sent: 10/7/07 1:24 PM
> Subject: RE: [G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD
>
> Looks like if the WD160 is ATA Compatible, I don't need to change the 
> pin configuration from 7,8. If not compatible, I need to add a jumper 
> across the 5,6 too. Do I try a start up to see if it is compatible? Or 
> how do I find out before?
> Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Harry Freeman" <harry at gifutiger.com>
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." 
> <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Sent: 10/7/07 12:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD
>
>
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