I need some help hooking up a second hard drive to my friend's Blue and White Power Mac G3. I tried hooking a second IDE hard drive where the Zip drive would go (it had no Zip drive). When I tried stating up the computer, OS 9 froze during startup. In OS X, the computer was VERY slow, but the hard drive did not show up on the desktop. Both hard drives are in good working order. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance!
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Adding a Second HD to Power Mac G3
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Make sure the drive is running as a slave and is connected as such. Changing a drive from master to slave is usually done using some shorting bar on the front, next to the connectors, or on the circuit board.
Hector said:
Well if it is a rev 1 it will work... it will just corrupt the drive. If you need to know what rev your blue and white is, check out this site
it would be hard to put 2 drives on the same cable in a rev. 1 as there is no stacked bracket. there are only the flat brackets which take just 1 drive each. I have a rev. 2 and have the dual drive bracket so I run a master and slave in it off the factory cable and onboard ata/33 bus. the only way you could put 2 on the same cable in a rev. 1 is to get a long cable with lots of room between the 2 data plugs.
blue&whiteman said:
You don't need a long cable. When I tried it out (just to see what would happen) when I had a blue and white, I just used a standard ide cable from my PC. Then put the hard drive right next to it. It seemed to work fine, and I had no proof of data corruption, but I disconnected it right after seeing that it did work.