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G4 additional HD
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I have noticed inside my G4 is the plugs for an additional HD. i tired plugging a 40GB harddrive into it and restarting but it won't start up? All I get is a blue screen. Is this because my processor can't handle 2 HD's?
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Is the new drive set up as a slave to the original drive? Are they even on the same cable?
It may take some jumper changes on the drive(s) to get things to work properly.
Which drive? Which G4?
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sawtooth. Not sure if it's in the slave or original drive postion
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ATA/IDE hard drives have jumpers (usually located near the power connector) that allow you to control the mode of the drive. Depending on the drive model, the jumper configuration will be different. Most of the time, removing all the jumpers puts the drives in slave mode.
The primary hard drive already in your G4 is already configured as a master on the primary IDE bus. The optical drive is, if I recall, also configured as a master on the secondary IDE bus. This would mean that you would need to have your second hard drive be in slave mode, and attach it to one of the free IDE cable connectors.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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My Sawtooth G4 shipped with the HD set to Single mode - also called "Master without Slave". Using this setting speeded up boot time under OS 9.
You should confirm one drive is set to Master and one to Slave, when there are two drives on a bus. At least in the early G4s -- somewhere around the QuickSilvers or MMDs, they started supporting Cable Select.
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