[ghostrider]

Some time ago, I read an article in a magazine describing how to use a PC chassie to add more card slots and extra drive bays. I don't remember which magazine, it was a MAC mag. I do remember that much!

My main question is: how to connect the external devises to my G4. Would it be possible to make the connection firewire??

Anyone know which issue I am talking about, or know were I can find such information??

[ 08-15-2001: Message edited by: ghostrider ]

[blot]

does this help?
http://www.magma.com/index2.html

[ghostrider]

Thank you for the reply.

I am aware of the product you mention.

What I was refering to is taking an empty PC case and adding hard drives and extra pci cards and connecting it to my G4.

I can get an empty PC case through work for next to nothing ($10.00),
I am trying to add extra expansion space as inexpensively as possible.

[Clive]

Then you need the product mentioned above (i think there's another around too).

The only other way you're likely to be able to do anything is wire further slots into the motherboard somehow - I really doubt that's feasible.

[ghostrider]

I remember the article told how to take a pc case (empty except for power supply) and add int. hard drives (I have two that I don't have room for in my G4) and then conect the drives through a pci card from the PC case to a card in the G4?? (I don't remember the details of the article.)

I think the article appeared in MacADDICT Magazine?? as much as two years ago??

I could buy one of the off the shelf expansion units, but I am on somewhat of a budget.

If anyone remembers reading this article, I would appreaciate letting me know which issue (magazine) and or the details of the article.

THANKS!!

[pi]

Here's Magma's parent company, they make a somewhat cheaper model.
http://www.mobl.com/products/family....=105&Mac=y

I'd be very interested in knowing a way to do what you're asking, but it seems to me that youneed some sort of controller and bus, I guess you could get some PCI cable, and connect it to the PC's drives controlling from your computer. Give that a try, shouldn't cost you much at all to at least try it.

[alphamatrix]

If its SCSI you want then MacAddict 33 Volume 4 Issue 5 May 1999.

[Woggle]

Hmmm, this would seem easy to me, and I seem to remember seeing some products along this line. You need a PCI 'plug' perhaps a blank board except for a multipin socket, and a PCI bus in the case. I wonder if you could use a dead PC mother board, and jumper from one of the PCI slots in the Mac to one of the slots in the dead board, and then use the rest of the slots. Similar things can be done for the drives.

[ghostrider]

Thank you alphamatrix.

That is the article I was refering to.

Doe's anyone now if the same thing could be done with IDE drives instead of SCSI?

I could buy the Mobility Electronics expansion unit, (not to expensive).

But, the empty PC case route (may?) be cheaper.

[ 08-17-2001: Message edited by: ghostrider ]