Subject: RE: installing a new drive question
From: Bryce Verdier (bverdier@pennnet.com)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 15:31:51 MDT
i don't know what you guys are going on about... i have a beige G3 at home,
on one IDE cable i have the CDROM, on the other i have a 14GB IBM hard drive
and the original 4G seagate that came with my Mac.
I say that as long as the guy sets his jumpers right, he shouldn't have any
problems.
Best Wishes and stuff;
b.
"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not
the reason we are doing it" -- Richard Feynman
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Jaeger [mailto:ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:37 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: installing a new drive question
I've got a PowerBase 200, which IIRC is based on the Alchemy board as is
the 6500 (I may be wrong). The _documentation_ says only 1 IDE drive is
supported, and IIRC there was a change in the G4 machines that allowed
later ones to use 2 IDE drives, but everything before that was limited
to 1 drive (this might have been during the run of the G3, not the G4).
I have not actually removed the single drive cable, put in a dual drive
cable, attached a second drive jumpered as slave and tried it. It might
work, but every report I have seen says these early IDE macs only
supported one IDE drive. I guess it can't hurt to try.
FWIW I just bough a regular (never been formatted for anything) 6gb IDE
drive and _replaced_ the stock 1.2gb IDE - I have 2gb for MacOS and the
rest for YDL. With the new drive in place I booted from the MacOS CD,
partitioned, installed MacOS and YDL with no difficulty, so I _can_ tell
you from first hand experience that no special "Mac-blessed" IDE drive
is needed.
"Turnquist,Wayne" wrote:
>
> so you are saying that since i have a 3 gig already, i can not just add a
> additional ide drive which i would have two drives. in another words, 1
ide
> drive only
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Jaeger [mailto:ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 2:38 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: installing a new drive question
>
> Based on all the information I've seen, but not having tried myself, the
> IDE controllers on all PPC Macs but the most recent G4s will only
> recognize one disk on the one channel present.
>
> "Turnquist,Wayne" wrote:
> >
> > can i take a 4 gig ide drive that was in a pc-windows machine and
install
> it
> > in my powerpc 6500.
> >
> > if i can,
> > do i set it to slave mode and then install it
> > then when i power up the mac, the mac should prompt for a
reformat
> > on that drive
>
> --
> Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation
> ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com
> http://www.bgcorp.com
> ---
> "Live out of your imagination, not your history."
>
> -- Stephen Covey
-- Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com http://www.bgcorp.com --- "Live out of your imagination, not your history."-- Stephen Covey
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