[G4] Swapping drives mirrored doors and FW800 dual processor G4s

[Jim Robertson]

On 10/23/03 11:02 AM, "Tracker at aol.com" <Tracker at aol.com> wrote:

> Additionally, some Macs will refuse to recognize a drive set to CS if there
> is a second drive also set to CS on the same bus ribbon. In that case, try
> setting the drives to Master and Slave and install them on the IDE bus ribbon
> with 
> the Master drive closest to the mother board.

Curiously, it's the newer (2003, FW800, Dual 1.25 GHz) that won't boot with
both drives set to Cable Select. I'll try switching the jumpers so the drive
closest to the motherboard is set as master, the other as slave, and see
what happens.

Am I understanding it correctly that "Master" doesn't necessarily have to be
the boot drive?

Is there any advantage to having one drive on each IDE bus (this box has
room for FOUR IDE drives on two separate carriers).


Jim Robertson
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