[G4] Newcomer to G4 - query on hard disks

[Richard Ramsowr]

Ian...

Good afternoon and may all  in ear shot (in this case
eye shot - I guess) have a safe and happy holiday!

Welcome aboard - your about to have the time of your
life while be far more productive than youÕve every
was with a PC - thatÕs a given

Now let me get my plug in for ÒEveryMac.comÓ which can
be reached by google'ing the above phase. This site
has all of the specification of every mac every born -
just go to Gigasbit Ethernet page and compare with
what your Mac tells you have on board (using the blue
apple and the first item ÒAbout this MacÓ). While your
at it see if you can find your serial number?

Have fun!

rich
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--- Ian Piper <ianpiper at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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