I have a QuickSilver 800MHz with 3 hard drives, all set to Cable Select. No trouble mounting drives, ever. Nate > Ron, > > You will see a lot of posts to this site where those answering don't > understand the problem and sometimes nit pick too much. Try not to let > that bother you. > > I'm not sure I can help you with the hard drive problem but I can > relate my experience. I have been running my dual 1.25 MDD with 10.3 > and 4 hard drives installed for some time with no problems at all with > the drives being mounted. I haven't checked for this post but I am > sure that all four of the drives are set for cable select. I have 2 > Maxtor 40 GB, 1 Samsung 160 GB and the original 120 GB drive that came > with the computer. I would advise trying to set all drives to cable > select and I think someone has already explained that the "normal" > setup is right rather than the special setups that seem to be for PC's > running other operating systems. I agree that the diagrams are often > confusing depending on the drives. > > Hope this helps, > > S. Kennedy > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984