[MacDV] Re: Mobile Setup

Thubten Kunga Kunga at FutureMedia.org
Tue Feb 18 17:03:53 PST 2003


She means on Macs with two or three IDE buses. Separate Buses. Like 
adding a second drive under the optical or in the case of MDD Macs, to 
the second HD bus with each set to master for their respective buses.

k

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 05:00  PM, Scott Baldwin wrote:

> I didn't think a mac would run with two disks configured as master.  
> When I installed a second drive in my G4 dual 500, it was set to 
> master, as was the existing drive, and the  computer wouldn't boot 
> until I set them up as master and slave.  This was in OS 9.  Can two 
> drives be set to master in OS X?
>
> I eventually installed OS X on the new drive, which is set to slave, 
> while OS 9 is still on the original drive set to master.  Should I 
> have OS X on the master? does it matter? does anybody really know what 
> time it is.....
>
> Scott



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