[G4] Hard drive installation problem

[Harry Freeman]

Kenneth ( + )!( + )

Did you connect the new drive to the first connector or the second?
It should be connected to the second/last connector on the ribbon 
cable, which is considered the first drive on the chain, if you install 
a second.
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On Nov 27, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Kenneth Smith wrote:

> Harry,
>
> I didn't install any card;  I simply installed the new drive per an 
> instructional video that I found on the OWC site where I purchased the 
> drive.  The unused wide cable that was provided under the mounting 
> tray had two sets of connections to accommodate installation of two 
> drives in the tray.  I put the drive in the tray, replaced the tray, 
> installed one set of the cable connections, inserted the OS X disk, 
> selected the new drive to install OS X, installed the OS, selected the 
> new drive as the startup disk, rebooted, formatted the other two old 
> disks, and other than the formatting issue and the slightly longer 
> startup, everything has been working fine.
>
> Thanks again, Kenneth/Floy
>
> On Nov 27, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Harry Freeman wrote:
>
>> Greetings Kenneth ( + )!( + )
>>
>> This is very good news, your solution may have something to do with 
>> what I read about those drives (more than likely somewhere in the IDE 
>> control) could protect data. What I read from Hitachi was that you 
>> needed a special WINTEL program to remove those protection schemes. 
>> However I didn't think that the protection would be in effect when 
>> the drive were installed in a Mac.
>>
>> My question, and I don't remember is you have already said but when 
>> when you installed the SATA drive did you install a SATA control card 
>> or did you use a SATA to ATA converter and then connect that to the 
>> ribbon cable that Apple provided for the front drive bays. If you 
>> installed a SATA PCI control card then it should make any difference 
>> whether the drive is in the front bay or the back.
>>
>> If you have "Xbench" run the application to find out how fast your 
>> drives are responding. If the drives (180 Gb) in the rear bays are 
>> responding faster then you may want to swap their positions.
>>
>> Congratulation on your solution.
>>
>> Best regards,
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