As I understand it; If you manage to put the non-serial drive on the bus it will slow any other drives. I could understand it wrong, and I am not shure if that pertains to the 1.6 gig wich has a different MB. Roger ken at schneider.net wrote: > >My son is getting a G5 1.6GHz and would like to put his >80GB IDE drive in it. Are there parallel to serial IDE >adapter thatwill work on the G5 or is his best bet to >put the old drive in a FireWire enclosure? > > > >