There are many cheap IDE/SATA adaptors on the market that just plug into the back of a SATA drive, so you can put it on the IDE ribbon cable. I tried one but the boot just hangs, without attempting to boot from the other IDE drive. Naturally, when I boot with option key down, no systems show up. Is this some weird master/slave thing or the position on the ribbon cable? The SATA drive adaptor is on the first 40-pin connection after the motherboard (grey) and the existing IDE drive is on the other (black). The SATA drive is not partitioned yet.
The setup is a 533Mhz digital audio G4 with a 160Gb IDE and a Samsung HD103SJ 1Tb on the SATA adaptor.
If I can get this working, I'd like to move to an adaptor on the motherboard so as to have only SATA drives, but first ...
The setup is a 533Mhz digital audio G4 with a 160Gb IDE and a Samsung HD103SJ 1Tb on the SATA adaptor.
If I can get this working, I'd like to move to an adaptor on the motherboard so as to have only SATA drives, but first ...