Hi Hec, I've found SATA drives to be marvelously simple. Haven't messed with a jumper on one yet. Just put the PCI card in, plug the drive in, and yes, it can go in any standard hard drive slot, and it should work fine. Eric W. Am 23.12.2008 um 21:54 schrieb hecowan: > hello, > > i am hoping for help from the group's wisdom. > > my g4 is a mdd dp 867. one of my christmas gifts is a seagate sata > drive (7650 mb i think) with an adapter card. it will become the > master drive. > > as a computer novice, is this a drive that i can install myself? > does is need to go in the bay of the existing drive? do i need to > anything about settings? > > thank you for all your help and ideas. > > best of the season. > hec > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4