[HM] Re: G4 Upgrade Project

[Howard Scudder]

Great info from everyone!  If I get time this weekend
I will start by replacing the CD drive.  If that works
ok I will then replace the HD and boot up from my 10.4
disk and with the utilities format the HD.

I will keep you posted on my progress.  Thanks to
everyone for their help.

Howard

--- Charlie Nowlin <nowlin at esper.com> wrote:

> Howard --
> 
> The acronym IDE stands for "Integrated Drive
> Electronics" The acronym 
> EIDE stands for "Enhanced Integrated Drive
> Electronics" . It is a 
> specific Western Digital Implementation of the ATA-2
> Standard. (See 
> page 1481 of "Upgrading and Repairing Pcs" by Scott
> Mueller, Eleventh 
> Edition, ISBN 0-7897-1903-7). I could continue with
> detail of the 
> relationship of ATA-2 to ATA with references to
> other page 
> references. But the bottom line is, use your hard
> drive an do not 
> worry.
> 
> Apple seems to prefer setting hard drive jumpers to
> "Cable Select" 
> rather than the traditional master-Slave setting of
> the IBM world. 
> The manual you got with your drive should tell you
> where to put the 
> small shorting blocks to do that.
> 
> Your CD ROM probably has an "ATAPI" interface. The
> acronym ATAPI 
> stands for "AT Attachment Packet Interface." This is
> a specification 
> that defines device side characteristics for an IDE
> connected 
> peripheral such as a CD ROM. ATAPI is essentially of
> the SCSI command 
> set to the IDE interface.  (See page 1458 of above
> reference) I 
> suggest you put your CD ROM on the first connector
> on a 2-connector 
> cable.  This is what Apple did on my G3 even though
> the end connector 
> was not used. On a cable select system, the middle
> device is the 
> slave and the end device is the  master.   Apple's
> CD ROM driver will 
> take care of the rest.
> Regards,  Charlie
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