[G4] What Have I Done To Deserve This

[gifutiger]

Greetings Aaron ( + )!( + )

You are correct, it's been such a long since I installed the second  
drive in my G4 that I had forgotten which drive went in which  
location. So I opened my case and verified that the bottom drive is  
the drive that is "Drive 0" and that it is on the end of the cable.

Then I checked my data base and here is what I found - it was taken  
from the manual that accompanied the NEW "Powermac G4 AGP Graphics"  
platform that I purchased in 1999

When I purchased the Mac the only drive was the one on the bottom and  
I'm not sure if it was on the end of the cable or on the middle  
connector.
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Ultra ATA Drives
Your Macintosh can accommodate two internal ATA drives in the U-shaped  
drive carrier in
drive position 3 at the bottom of the computer. If you purchased a  
model with one Ultra ATA
drive, it sits in the lower portion of this U-shaped drive carrier.  
You can install a second ATA
drive in the upper part of the carrier.
The drive that came with your Macintosh is designated the primary  
drive (sometimes called
the “master drive” or “drive 0”). Therefore, an additional  
Ultra ATA drive must be configured
as the secondary drive (sometimes called the “slave drive” or  
“drive 1”). For more
information on configuring an additional drive, see the documentation  
that came with it.
Your Macintosh will not work with Ultra ATA drives set for “cable  
select mode.”
	* This surely was surprise to me!
	I assume that ATA drive will operate in the cable select mode but not  
Ultra!
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If you added a second ATA drive to a computer that came with one ATA  
drive, plug the
connector on the end of the ribbon cable to the drive on the bottom  
and attach the
cable’s middle connector to the top drive.
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On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:01 AM, Aaron wrote:

> It's always good to keep tabs on the SMART status of the internal  
> drive(s).
>
> At 16:54 -0800 2009/02/15, gifutiger wrote:
>> I concede, if there isn't a Cable Select jumper on the drive then  
>> they
>> should be jumped as Master/Slave. However with the cable that is
>> provide with the G4 the Master drive will still be the one that is
>> closest to the Disk Controller.
>
> Either you're wrong or the G4 you're referring to is entirely non- 
> standard! Normally, the drive at the end of the cable is the Master,  
> and if there's only one drive on the cable, it must be set to Master  
> or Cable Select and should (MUST if using Cable Select) be at the  
> end. However, if neither drive is using Cable Select, it MAY be OK  
> to put the master in the middle and the Slave at the end.
>
> - Aaron
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