[G4] Where to put a 3rd hard drive?

[Peter]

At 07:14 -0700 1/6/05, Crandon David wrote:
>I have a DP500 Gigabit Ethernet G4.
>
>I already have two hard drives attached to the same bus.
>
>I'd like to add a 3rd, and from what I understand it would be 
>connected to the same bus as the DVD-ROM drive. Is this correct?

That's what I did. The ribbon has the facility to connect another drive.

>Does the DVD-ROM drive already have a cable that will connect two 
>drives (like the main hard drive cable) or do I have to get a new 
>cable? And do I have to do the master-slave thing (this computer 
>does not support cable select)?

I used the cable from the DVD and fitted the third drive into the 
unused Zip drive slot. IIRC I did not bother with master/ slave.

[System- macintosh G4 Digital Audio; OSX 10.4.1; 1GHz; 896 Mb SDRAM]