[G4] Re: Hard drive installation problem

Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net
Sat Nov 24 11:33:42 PST 2007


>The new drive is not SCSI ( Link to Drive: 
>http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST3750640A/ ).
>My G4 simply came with the two ATA drives in the rear
>tray, then I added the new ATA drive in the front tray.

Well, could that be your problem? It's a serial ATA! Do you have an 
SATA card installed?

Also, I think that "front tray" interface is slower than the "rear 
tray". When you buy faster ATA drives, your system performance might 
be better if you keep the system files on the faster interface.


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