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Is it possible for second HD in G4?
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Mr_Frost
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I have a G4/400 , one of the first G4's that came out. I was wondering if it is possible to put a second Hard Disk in there without removing the original HD. I was also wondering what would be the best buy. This is really urgent so I would appreciate if you guys gave me some advice a.s.a.p. Thanks in advance.
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Mr_Frost
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How about the Lacie HD...are they any good?
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Yes,
I added an IBM 30 Gig 7200rpm IDE drive on the available internal connector and mount bracket. It took about 15 min and went exactly as the Setting Up Guide showed.
As for specifics on drives, stick with a known name and go with a manufacurer vice a repackager. Lacie is a good company, but they don't make the drive.
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Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Poway, CA USA
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Adding a second hard drive to a G4 is simple. You can fit up to 4 in the bottom of the tower. If you have a Yikes all you have to do is make sure one drive is jumpered as a master and the other as a slave.
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Mr_Frost
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What's a Yikes and how do I set the slave and master?
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA
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Yikes was the first G4 that used a G3 logic board. They called it Yikes because Apple didn't have the new board (aka Sawtooth) ready and needed to get the G4 to market.
As for setting the drive to slave, it just done with a jumper on the drive itself. Most drives have the settings labeled on the drive or in the instruction manual.
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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If you have the G4/400 with a PCI video card you have a Yikes. If you have a G4/400 with an AGP video card you have a Sawtooth. The VERY first G4/400s were Yikes models. And Paul S has it exactly right, you look on the drive itself and usually there is a diagram of how to plug in the tiny jumper plugs to set the drive as a master or a slave. If you are adding a drive to a single drive system the original drive should be jumpered as a master already so all you really should have to do is set the new drive as a slave. You CAN boot from a slave drive once you install a system onto it, and hard drives perform just as fast whether they are set as master or slave. Just install the new drive right on top of the old one (the mounting bracket is set up so that there is about a 1/4" gap between the two hard drives) and plug it into the same IDE cable that the old drive is plugged into. The Drive Setup utility software in OS 9.x should see the new drive just fine and initialize it for you.
[This message has been edited by snodman (edited 03-19-2001).]
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