[G4] Newcomer to G4 - query on hard disks

[Ian Piper]

Hi all,

I have just purchased a dual 450 MHz G4 (I think it is called a  
Gigabit Ethernet model). I have a question about hard disk expansion  
and would appreciate any advice you could offer.

The machine has a 30 GB disk, located in drive bay 3. From the manual  
it seems that I can put two disks in this bay, and I can see the  
extra IDE and power cables to allow this. However, the manual also  
says that the G4 supports up to 3 internal drives. I can't see any  
IDE (or other for that matter) connectors in the other two drive  
bays, so how do I fit a third drive? Is it possible to put an  
internal hard drive in the bay where the zip drive would normally go  
(there is a second IDE bus with the DVD-ROM drive on it and a spare  
IDE connector)? If it were possible presumably I would have to set  
the DVD jumpers to slave and the disk's jumpers to master. I have a  
Mac Cube and I am pretty sure that it has one IDE bus, holding the  
disk and DVD-ROM, so on the face of it it should be possible. Has  
anyone done anything like this?

Brief background - I would like to use the existing drive as a boot  
disk and add two RAID (mirrored) 120 GB disks to use the computer as  
a file server for my network.

Any illumination much appreciated.


Ian.
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