[G4] Have I gone too far for a G4?

Harry A Freeman gifutiger at gmail.com
Fri Apr 10 18:38:54 PDT 2009


Greetings ( + )!( + )

"It will only read the first one." Which I believe is the one at the  
end of the cable.

Cheers

Harry
San Jose, Ca
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On Apr 10, 2009, at 6:28 PM, B G wrote:

> 99% of the drive will read as master if not jumpered,
>
> You cannot have two masters on the same cable.
>
> It will only read the first one.
>
> Yuo must set the jumpers either to cable select or master / salce
>
> BG
>
> On Apr 10, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Thomas Brooks wrote:
>
>> Recently I was able to get a 320GB WD SATA drive and a Macsense  
>> SATA/IDE Combo PCI card for a good price.
>>
>> I now have the 320GB connected to the internal SATA port and a  
>> 250GB and 160GB ATA HDS's connected to the internal Ultra ATA 133  
>> port on the card.
>>
>> Although the 320 MB HD seems to be working fine and <About this  
>> Mac> sees it and the 250GB HD it does not see the 160GB HD on the  
>> same ultra ATA  cable as the 250GB.
>>
>> There are no jumpers in place on either the 250GB or 160GB.
>>
>> Before I installed the 250GB internally I was using it in a  
>> firewire enclosure as an external bootable HD.
>>
>> In the Startup Disk panel of System Preferences only the 320GB disk  
>> shows up.
>>
>> Before I reinstall the Hard Drives, PCI Card and OS if necessary do  
>> any of you have any ideas?
>>
>> There is no practical reason for this arrangement--I just like to  
>> tinker.
>>
>> Tom Brooks
>>
>> I am running OSX 10.5.6 on a Sawtooth G4 AGP.
>> 1.2 GHz processor upgrade
>> 2GB Ram
>> 430 Watt ATX P/S
>>
>>
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