[X-Newbies] how to seamlessly use added hard drive

[Robert MacLeay]

Not all G4 Macs support cable select; I do not know the cutoff model.

A further complication is that not all _cables_ support cable select, even
when the drives and host adapters do support it.  Most that do are
80-conductor, and will have pin 28 on only one of the connectors actually
attached to the cable.  While the current standards say end connector should
be the master, not all early cables followed them.

When the instructions don't work, ignore them; you could try setting the
jumpers on the two drives to master and slave.

On 9/9/06 11:41 PM, "Chris Beamis" <beamis at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Okay, I now have near success.  Got SuperDuper, copied the boot drive
> over to the new big drive and made it the boot drive, and now in the
> Finder window it says 319GB free whereas before it said 3.1GB free.
> So I'm using the new drive.  The only problem I'm having is that I
> can't seem to move the new drive to the end of the data cable.  When
> i put it there the machine won't boot, but if I leave it in the slave
> connector (position #2) it will boot with or without the other drive
> connected.  Problem is I want to put it on the end and put the old
> smaller one in the middle for temporary so I can clean it off for
> sale.  Does anyone know how to do that?  The jumper switches for both
> of them remain in the Cable Select position.