[G4] Hard drive installation problem

[Kenneth Smith]

Harry,

I installed it on the second.  There is still one set of connectors  
at the very end of the cable, to accommodate another drive on top of  
the newly installed one, if I ever decide to do that.

Kenneth


On Nov 27, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Harry Freeman wrote:

> 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.
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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