[MacDV] best int. hd for new G4 tower?

[Mark M. Florida]

Did you check all of your jumpers?  The drive at the end of the chain 
should be set to "Master" and the one in the middle of the chain should 
be set to "slave".  Using "cable select" (usually the default) with 
drives from different manufacturers may cause problems? (although it 
shouldn't)  I've never used Western Digital specifically, but I've 
never had a problem with mixed manufacturer drives in the same 
computer, or even on the same IDE bus, and I always manually set the 
drives to "Master" or "Slave" mode, depending on where it's installed 
on the ATA/IDE chain.

- Mark

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 10:47 PM, animal wrote:

> After adding a 120 GB IBM (ATA) to a G4 400 Sawtooth AGP, I then 
> replaced the tiny 10G stock Maxtor  with a  120GB 8m cache western 
> digital.  BIG MISTAKE!  Not only is the Western D slower than the 2 
> cache IBM, I've now been getting numerous crashes with photoshop and 
> premiere.  There may also be a problem exporting to tape from a 
> western D (in an apple) to a Canon camcorder - which I haven't tried 
> yet.
>
> So, despite $ hardship, I've bought another IBM 120GB from owc and am 
> relegating the Western to a backup external hard drive only.
>
> Just my experience.  Lynn
>
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