Toshiba HDD2144 compat.

[Josh Keady]

A friend of mine gave me a 6gb hard drive out of a Compaq (Toshiba 
HDD2144) and I was thinking I could use it in my 2400.  I have an 
adapter that allows mini-ATA connectors to connect to a full-size IDE 
cable, so I put the Toshiba drive in my G4 tower and 
partitioned/formatted it with OS X's Disk Utility (made sure to make it 
HFS+ non-journaled with the OS 9 driver option selected).  I had 
already removed the IBM drive from the 2400, so I copied its files to 
the Power Mac, then to the 'new' Toshiba drive, including the System 
Folder.  The System Folder showed as being blessed, so I shut down, 
installed the Toshiba drive in the PowerBook and turned it on... 
flashing question mark.  I then booted OS 9 with an external SCSI 
drive, thinking maybe the drive just needed to be selected in the 
Startup Disk control panel (I could hear it at least spinning up in 
there.)  Not only did the drive not mount after 9 had booted, it didn't 
show up in the Drive Setup application.  Fudge.  So I tore the whole 
thing back apart again, found a PDF online that had the jumper config 
for the drive, set it to cable select, reinstalled it (foolishly 
putting everything back together) and still had the same problem; drive 
spins up, won't mount, won't show up in Drive Setup or System Profiler.

I've had the thought that OS X's Disk Utility might have written a 
partition table that just befuddled OS 9.  But before I take the thing 
back apart for the 3rd time, anyone have a little light they can shed 
on this?  The factory spec PDF does state that it's ATA-2,3,4 spec 
compatible- is the 2400 only compatible with 1st gen ATA?  I know I've 
heard of people putting larger drives in the machine, but I'm kind of 
sketchy when it comes to the differences in ATA.

Thanks in advance,

Josh Keady