[MacDV] Re: Mobile Setup

[Erica Sadun]

At 5:00 PM -0800 2/18/03, Scott Baldwin wrote:
>I didn't think a mac would run with two disks configured as master. 
>When I installed a second drive in my G4 dual 500, it was set to 
>master, as was the existing drive, and the  computer wouldn't boot 
>until I set them up as master and slave.  This was in OS 9.  Can two 
>drives be set to master in OS X?

You need another (PCI) disk controller card to have two masters.

>I eventually installed OS X on the new drive, which is set to slave, 
>while OS 9 is still on the original drive set to master.  Should I 
>have OS X on the master? does it matter? does anybody really know 
>what time it is.....

I know! I know! It's time to feed the baby!

-- Milklady
p.s. I have OSX as slave too and OS 9 as master. It works fine.
I'm not going to bother changing for a while.