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Two hard drives on G4?
Name: MIKEBALTO Date: April 27, 2006 at 14:48:44 Pacific OS: Mac 10.3.9 CPU/Ram: G4 400/ 1 gig Product: Apple G4 AGP
Comment:
I can run my G4 on either of my 2 hard drives, ATA internal. But when I hook up both, the machine does not fully boot up and the small mac face icon stays on the screen for an hour, or until i get annoyed and turn power off, then use only one hard drive. I have system 9.2.2 on a smaller drive and 10.3.9 onthe big drive, with a bracket for 2 drives and a cable and power connections. But only one works at a time.
Name: budm Date: April 27, 2006 at 16:25:46 Pacific
Reply:
one drive should have the jumper set to master and another drive should be set to slave, please verify the setting. you can try set both of them to cable select but I prefer master/slave setup.
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Response Number 2
Name: MIKEBALTO Date: April 29, 2006 at 11:52:04 Pacific
Reply:
Tried your suggestion and it worked! both drives now working fine. Only one drive had instructions for setting jumpers, small drawing on front label, but it was easy to do. Never had the bad luck of having 2 drives with same setting before in 19 years of Mac use.
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