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What do you need to do to start using a 2nd HD?
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My sister has just bought a second ATA hard Drive to install in her OSX 10.2 400MHZ PCI G4. A friend has installed it as 'slave' and she says it appears in the Apple System Profiler, but she can't find it or use it.
She's not online much, and I live abroad, so it's tricky for me to find out the details from her. I'm, just wondering if anyone can throw some useful suggestions my way that I can relay to her?
I would imagine it would simply appear in the Finder alongside her original startup disk. Does she need to format it for this to happen? If so, how? I don't know the model, but I suspect it's a Seagate or Maxtor drive, as that's what I recommended to her last week.
Cheers.
(Last edited by superblue; Mar 18, 2003 at 07:45 PM.
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She needs to initialize it. Go to Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Click on the Partition tab, select the drive, and initialize it.
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I also installed a second HD in my 10.2.3 duel 1.25 when i bought it.. The manual said you had to put the jumpers in cable select mode.. I did this and the disk started showing up right away on my desktop.
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you put one drive in slave mode, the other as a master...
but probably the original HD was set to cable select, so putting the new 2nd HD to slave doesn't make sense...
try putting it to cable select as well
if that doesn't work, put the first HD to master, and set the second HD to slave
slave and master is something that pops up when you have 2 HDs running off the same ATA cable
um, and to set the drives to master/slave/cable select you have to move some jumpers around... all these are is little bridges that bridge little terminals on the hardrive, they are usually right beside where the cable plugs in. You can easily pull them out with your finger, and put them back in according to the appropriate configuration that will either be in the hardrives manual, or drawn on the hardrive it's self... good luck..
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in the finder, select 'computer' from the go menu, the drive would probably show up in there. (that's if she has set her computer to not display internal drives on the desktop)
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Thanks for all the advice everyone - she managed to get it sorted via initializing it in disk utility.
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Originally posted by Kyle Dreaden:
I also installed a second HD in my 10.2.3 duel 1.25 when i bought it.. The manual said you had to put the jumpers in cable select mode.. I did this and the disk started showing up right away on my desktop.
Since the Dual 1GHZ that cable select jumper system was implemented.
All older G4s have to have the jumpers on the HDD manually set.
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