[G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD

[Eric Wood]

Master/slave does apply to the Macintosh as well as Wintels, but then
you can probably have both drives set on Cable Select and not worry
about it. Wintels do have to take into consideration which drive will be
primary, as that affects how those machines boot. Not an issue with the
Mac.

If it won't format beyond a single 128 GB partition, I imagine it's
possible to make two partitions in order to take full advantage of the
drive's capacity. The goal there would be to use the entire drive up
with the two partitions, however large you make the two of them. The
default is simply to cut the drive in half.

I have a USB 2.0 "box" that allowed a drive to die when I'd left it on
too long. I don't suppose that's an issue for every external drive
enclosure, but it's led me to prefer internal use of hard drives, except
of course for portability between different machines.

So the bottom line is go ahead and format it in HFS+ journaled, install
the OS 9 drivers if you want to boot OS 9 on the machine (doesn't affect
Classic within OS X) and enjoy that hundred-something gigabytes of
space.

Eric

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 11:55 -0700, Harry Freeman wrote:
> Greetings ( + )!( + )
> 
> I have a Drive that when I first installed it there was something in 
> the doc. that came with it that talked about Master/Slave which turned 
> out to be when it was being installed into a WINTEL box.
> 
> So bottom line is, if it shows up in the window when you startup "Disk 
> Utility" just go ahead and format the drive. Even if it is a very large 
> drive, 300GB it will only format as 128GB
> 
> My drive was Maxtor 200GB drive so after formatting it as a 128GB drive 
> I got a firewire box and reformatted it as a full 200GB drive.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Joseph Glynn wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure how to format the new drive in OS10.4.
> >  From everything I have tried to read on installing a second WD160HD 
> > as a slave to my Seagate Barricuda 80HD Master on a G4 QS, I think I'm 
> > supposed to partition it (format it?). If I RAID it that will erase 
> > all my info on my old 80HD (that would be bad because I can't back up 
> > to my external HD or burn to DVD). I'm not sure about how many 
> > partitions to pick (is one OK?). I think I'm best using the Mac OS 
> > Extended (journaled) option in the Format: I see the option to Install 
> > Mac OS9 Disk Drivers so I checked that. I'm just waiting for someone 
> > that knows more, to say that's wrong or to give me the green light 
> > before I melt everything down on accident.
> > I have called Apple but they want $49.00 for every problem and I don't 
> > have much extra cash for 100 problems.
> > Thanks for the help so far,
> > Joe
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Joseph Glynn" <jglynn40 at sprintpcs.com>
> > To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." 
> > <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> > Sent: 10/7/07 6:13 PM
> > Subject: RE: [G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD
> >
> > For the Disk Utility I'm not sure what settings I should use for the
> > RAID Set Name: ?
> > Volume Format: ?
> > RAID Type: Mirrored Raid Set
> >                  Striped Raid Set
> >              Or Concatenated Disk Set
> > I was having problems with my original 80Gbytes HD, because it is so 
> > full, so I'm trying to use the new HD as a back up so I can get my 
> > files on a DVD or CD or if my new firewire port works my external 
> > Lacie 200GB HD.
> > Lots of options not sure best choice.
> > Thanks for all the help I'm new at all this!
> > Joe
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Joseph Glynn" <jglynn40 at sprintpcs.com>
> > To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." 
> > <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> > Sent: 10/7/07 1:24 PM
> > Subject: RE: [G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD
> >
> > Looks like if the WD160 is ATA Compatible, I don't need to change the 
> > pin configuration from 7,8. If not compatible, I need to add a jumper 
> > across the 5,6 too. Do I try a start up to see if it is compatible? Or 
> > how do I find out before?
> > Thanks
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Harry Freeman" <harry at gifutiger.com>
> > To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." 
> > <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> > Sent: 10/7/07 12:50 PM
> > Subject: Re: [G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD
> >
> >
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