[grovberg]

Not really hacking exactly, but I figured this group might have some ideas. I recently got a G5 tower and I'd rather not have to go and buy new drives when I have a perfectly good 200GB ATA-100 drive and a PCI IDE controller just hanging around. The PCI slots are close enough that getting the IDE cable over to the drive bays shouldn't be a big deal, but I'm a little lost on how to get power over to the drive.

Anybody got any bright ideas?
-Grover

[Waragainstsleep]

Don't the standard molex connectors reach the drive bays? Unusually poor design from Apple if thats the case. If you need, you should be able to get an extension cable (or even cheaper, build your own. Most system fans have male and female molex plugs if you need to harvest those from somewhere.

[grovberg]

Originally posted by Waragainstsleep:
Don't the standard molex connectors reach the drive bays? Unusually poor design from Apple if thats the case. If you need, you should be able to get an extension cable (or even cheaper, build your own. Most system fans have male and female molex plugs if you need to harvest those from somewhere.

Ah sorry, I should probably have been more descriptive. The G5 uses SATA HDs and only has the data and power for SATA (which is different) routed to the drive bays. I've found some converters that go molex to SATA power, but not the other way around. Since I've posted, I've discovered that the optical drive uses parallel ATA so it should have a molex conntector I can split. Getting in there is going to be a royal pain though, so I still am all ears to any better suggestions.

-Grover