[G4] What Have I Done To Deserve This

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Greetings Umar ( + )!( + )

I have a 1998 G4 PowerMac AGP Graphic that I bought NEW.
I don't know if the others commenting on this subject are correct or  
not but my HDD's located in the original slots, located at the back of  
the case are not set for "Master/Slave" because with the original  
PowerMac AGP the drive are set for "Cable Select"

If you pull out the little cable that connects the two drive together  
you will see where the cable is not a straight trough cable. I haven't  
looked in a long time but if the drive do not have a "Cable Select'"  
setting then I think that they are both set for "Master"

You'll find that if you switch the the settings on the drives (the one  
on top from slave to master) that the one on the bottom still loads as  
the first drive (Master) and the only way to change it is to change  
it's locatation on the cable. The one closest to the mother board is  
the "Master"

By the way I have four (4) drives in this old G4. In the original  
locations at the back of the case I have a
"Master" Western Digital WD1200JB-00DUA3 111.79GB formatted, the as  
"Slave" I have a Maxtor Maxtor 6Y120P0
114.5GB formatted capacity. Then up front I have a Western Digital  
SATA WDC WD3200AAJS-0
298.09GB formatted capacity connected via ACARD 6280M, and a Maxtor  
300 297.97GB formatted capacity connected via Ultra-Tek 133P+  
controller card. That's a total of 822.35GB internal plus a Maxtor  
200GB on a Firewire connection.

So my advice is set your drives to cable select it there is a setting  
otherwise set them both to "Master"

For more information see the "Apple Developers Page"

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/PowerMacG4/3Input-Output/chapter_4_section_5.html

Cheers
  - Harry -
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On Feb 15, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Umar Stone wrote:

> Hey cwick and everyone interested, I checked the master/slave  
> settings and as directed, they were in the right order for the  
> machine;
> I tried applejack repeatedly on each HD about 6 times. So I think it  
> may be a power issue, if it is can I fix it ?
> Thanks everyone who maybe wasting their time on my old G4 (which I  
> want to survive)
> On 15/02/2009, at 7:27 PM, cwick wrote:
>
>> i posted that earlier...
>> id def check the master/slave settings on all ur drives....gl man
>>
>> cwick
>>
>>
>> --- On Sat, 2/14/09, Umar Stone <umartisan at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Umar Stone <umartisan at mac.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [G4] What Have I Done To Deserve This
>>> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 
>>> >
>>> Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 7:41 PM
>>> Cool, I wish ...., I did the applejack thing it fixed a few
>>> lost files and permissions, like Tiger cache cleaner that i
>>> use for similar situations, it didn't help with the
>>> relaunching of finder or crashing of files & programs on
>>> the master, nor on the others.
>>> Disk Utility I naturally try to start from the original
>>> disk, with everything disconnected but the keyboard mouse
>>> and screen, still freezes at language selection. otherwise
>>> if I try it in utilities it won't find anything but
>>> maybe a permission checkin all drives.
>>> my memory (the computers) seems to be cool I have 3 SDRAM
>>> all 133's  2 are 512 1 is a 256, can i put more?.
>>> The Maxtor I installed Tiger on, but copied programs and
>>> files onto.
>>> So as a novice ( I'm much better at animation than
>>> computer problems) would I have mixed up the master/slave
>>> when formating the Maxtor into this machine and how could i
>>> fix it?
>>>
>>> I don't know much about all of this kinda stuff thanks
>>> all of you for helping
>>>
>>> On 14/02/2009, at 3:05 PM, Eric Wood wrote:
>>>
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