<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have just purchased a dual 450 MHz G4 (I think it is called a Gigabit Ethernet model). I have a question about hard disk expansion and would appreciate any advice you could offer.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The machine has a 30 GB disk, located in drive bay 3. From the manual it seems that I can put two disks in this bay, and I can see the extra IDE and power cables to allow this. However, the manual also says that the G4 supports up to 3 internal drives. I can't see any IDE (or other for that matter) connectors in the other two drive bays, so how do I fit a third drive? Is it possible to put an internal hard drive in the bay where the zip drive would normally go (there is a second IDE bus with the DVD-ROM drive on it and a spare IDE connector)? If it were possible presumably I would have to set the DVD jumpers to slave and the disk's jumpers to master. I have a Mac Cube and I am pretty sure that it has one IDE bus, holding the disk and DVD-ROM, so on the face of it it should be possible. Has anyone done anything like this? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brief background - I would like to use the existing drive as a boot disk and add two RAID (mirrored) 120 GB disks to use the computer as a file server for my network.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Any illumination much appreciated.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ian.<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:ianpiper@mac.com">ianpiper@mac.com</A></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">07973 156616 | 01926 811383</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">skype: ianmpiper</P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>