On 6/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've run out of hard drive space on all but my startup drive, so it's time to > add more. I have > four firewire drives on my desk already, and I still have > an empty second drive bay in my > dual 1.25 G4 Mac. So I bought a 750 gig IDE ATA-6 Seagate Barracuda, and I'm > going to > install it internally in the top half of the lower drive bay. > ($138 at 4allmemory.com). Do I > have to do anything to configure the new drive so the Mac knows it's not the > startup > drive? I saw some mention of "jumpers" in an on line article, but it wasn't > clear. I'm hoping > someone here can tell me if I need to do any more than > screw it into the bay and connect > it to the second ribbon plug.
You should be able to leave the drive jumpers in the "cable select" position and have it work. That has worked for my G4 here at work, and my G5 at home. -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
