[G4] two 500 gb drives

[John Niven]

Jim,

You can buy a power splitter: a short cable with a socket on one end which splits in a "Y" to two plugs (one for each drive).

John

--- On Tue, 5/6/08, thekirkline1941 at verizon.net <thekirkline1941 at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: thekirkline1941 at verizon.net <thekirkline1941 at verizon.net>
> Subject: [G4] two 500 gb drives
> To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 9:13 AM
> A while ago, I purchased two Seagate 500gb Barracuda
> internal hard drives for my G4 Quicksilver (800 mhz). I had
> hoped to install both and use them as automatic backups to
> the original 40 gb drive. I also purchased the required PCI
> card in order that they would be recognized to their full
> capacity. The problem I have run into is that there is only
> one extra power supply cord P5 available. Question: how do I
> connect both drives in order to use them as backups. What I
> have done so far is install them one at a time and, using
> Carbon Copy Cloner, copied the data from the original drive
> to one and then the contents of my La Cie external 80 gb
> drive to the other. Both Seagates are bootable, but, under
> current circumstances I can only have one installed at a
> time. My guess is I need to purchase an extra power cord
> but am not sure how to install such a thing. Also, is it
> possible with these SATA drives to have them automatically
> back up my data from the original? Thanks.
> 
> Jim Scarborough Kirk
> 
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