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Adding new second hard drive to a G4... questions
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I bought a maxtor hard drive for an old G4 Gigabit powermac.
Inside there was a plug in that I lugged into the mac second hard drive and layed the new harddrive ontop of the older one. there are other slots on the new hard drive that look like something goes in them, but Inside the mac there are no oth plug in cords to plu into it.
Please help. allso it needs screws to stay in place but there are none present.
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I like chicken
I like liver
Meow Mix, Meow Mix
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perfect! Thank you! 
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I like chicken
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Meow Mix, Meow Mix
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Im installing a second HD in my G4 too! yay! we're hardware twins!
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If you want to be tricky, install a 3rd drive where the space for the ZIP drive is (probably only exists on Sawtooth cases). 
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Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
If you want to be tricky, install a 3rd drive where the space for the ZIP drive is (probably only exists on Sawtooth cases).
All El Capitan cases have the Zip bay.
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Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
If you want to be tricky, install a 3rd drive where the space for the ZIP drive is (probably only exists on Sawtooth cases).
i cant get my third hard drive to work here.. could you explain how to do it? i have been looking everywhere for 3rd hard drive support...do i have to set up my cd-rw or dvd drive to slave and the hard drive to something else? mine just wont show up.. i need help!
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Originally posted by orangep0ny:
i cant get my third hard drive to work here.. could you explain how to do it? i have been looking everywhere for 3rd hard drive support...do i have to set up my cd-rw or dvd drive to slave and the hard drive to something else? mine just wont show up.. i need help!
Your optical drive needs to be set to Master, new drive to Slave. Then just boot up and format as usual. Or at least that's all I did, and it worked right off the bat.
EDIT: It also depends on what kind of machine you're using, what is it?
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