[G4] Jumper advice

nagable at comcast.net nagable at comcast.net
Sun Aug 28 20:30:33 PDT 2005


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
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