[G4] Continued problems with G4 MDD Harddrive setup

[B G]

If the CD/DVD is working try putting the hard drive on the second  
connector below the CD/DVD

If it works okay then there might be a problem with the primary IDE  
channel,
in which case you can buy a pci controller


Brian

G4 gigE 1.0 GHz Powerlogix, 1 GB RAM

On Jan 5, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Richard H. Blount wrote:

> Hi All,
> I was gifted a G4 MDD powermac a couple weeks ago. It was partially
> disassembled and missing a hard drive. I was able to get things back
> together and even able to get it to boot to the CD-Rom or DVD  
> (whatever this
> thing has) Macs are a rather new thing to me. From repeated p-ram  
> resets,
> pushing the little button thing and doing the C-Opt O-F thing to  
> reset the
> Nvram and reset defaults and even buying a new hard-drive. (a  
> Maxtor Calypso
> 80g) I believe the primary HDD controller is kaput. The G4 rebuild  
> disks
> continue to tell me the drive is not supported on the ATA66  
> controller.  I
> was, however able to take the drive to my older G4 450 AGP and it  
> works just
> fine there. I even installed OSX to the drive hoping to get the MDD  
> to see
> it. To no avail. The @#$$ thing still just sits there still mocking  
> me..
> Have I missed anything. Should I part it out (Would give much  
> satisfaction)
> I just hate to give up on dual 1.2's. Much faster than my regular  
> machine.
> -- 
> Maj. Richard H. Blount (OHMR Ret.)
> It is not enough to aim, You must hit.
>
>
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