[G4] How to set your hard drive to master

[John Baltutis]

On 12/06/05,  Richard Smallwood <smally at knology.net> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2005, at 3:52 PM, jennifer friede wrote:
>
>> I have a PowerMac G4 and my master hard drive is set at 20 GB when I
>> originally purchased. I want to upgrade my master hard drive. I
>> purchased a 250 GB Maxtor ATA/133 7200RPM 16MB. My computer doesn't
>> recognize the drive when I installed the 250 GB hard drive in P2.
>>
>> Does this have something to do with the jumper cable? I'm confused
>> with the master/slave part. If anyone can help me out with examples or
>> descriptions or links. I've done research online and found a lot of
>> information but I couldn't understand what I'm not getting at.
>>
>> I have already purchased the same hard drive for my slave and already
>> installed the proper firmware to recognize the capacity of the GB
>> size.
>
> The G-4 says to set your internal hard drives to cable select, The
> drives become slave or master depending on where they are located on
> the cable (at the far end is the master).

Depends on the G4, which Jennifer never really stated. On my G4, 450 MP, the
manual explicitly states set one to master and a second to slave. That's
accomplished by setting the jumpers, not the cable. Go to Maxtor's site and
search for jumper settings for your HD.