Need advice on installing a 2nd drive.

Re: Need advice on installing a 2nd drive.

install the raptor drive. install OSX on it. boot from the raptor drive and then drag and drop your stuff then clean house on the 160 and do what you want with it.

Tyler

 

Maybe?

I'm new to the Mac world so take this with a grain of salt....

I know holding option key durring startup brings up a menu of bootable drives.

Also can't you just select the "Startup Drive" in the control panel?

 

Make sure one is set to master (the Raptor in this case) and the other to slave (the old one.)

 

Re: Maybe?

You are right. OSX (+ OS9) has a startup panel where you tell it what to boot off. Holding the options key will force the computer to search for all available boot devices, whether that be a cdrom, or a hard drive.

 

I'd set the drives to cable select (if they support it) and never worry about master/slave conflicts when you move drives around.

As far as I know, the firmware dictates the startup device, not the HDD order or presence of a bootable device.

 

technical info most of you won't be interested, from this Apple technote:

which just means that Rower is correct. it doesn't matter how you have your drives set re: master/slave as long as they're not conflicting with each other or your optical drive(s).

install your new HD with the jumpers set to slave or cable select, as your existing HD is most likely already set to master. boot up, and use Disk Utility (or your install CD) to install Panther on the new drive. once that's done, transfer all of your files from the old HD to the new. then set your startup disk (under 'System Preferences' in the apple menu) to the new drive. do whatever you want to the old HD -- leave as is, reformat, stir-fry with fresh ginger, etc.

and you're done -- easy pleasy, nice 'n cheesy.

 

What's the specific error?

 

Hmmm...and is this from the OS install CD or from Disk Utility in Panther?

 

This sounds like the HD is defective. But, just to make sure... You installed the drive, plugged the SATA cables in, started the computer, and then ran Disk Utility. In Disk Utility, you have the list of drives on the left and they say something like

(hd icon) "157.2GB Seagate...."
(hd icon indented) "Macintosh HD"
(hd icon) "71.8GB Seagate...."

Then you clicked on the 74GB drive, went to the "Partition" tab, selected "1 Partition" from the pulldown menu, named the drive, then clicked "Partition" and it gives you that error?

 

Hehe. Is it reporting the size of the drive properly? We had this one machine once where the IDE bus was reporting the internal drive as 670GBs. I have the picture somewhere... Ahh, there we go, too big. Let me shrink that and I'll attach it.

Looks like your drive is dead. Return it.

 

Here we go:

 

Cable to blame?

i just purchased a second drive for my G5 as well and am experiencing the same proiblem. i thought the unit was defective so i returned it for another one. same problem. then i pulled out my top hard drive and installed my new one there. guess what? no problem initializing or partitioning. then i tried putting it in the lower bay and reconnected my old drive in the top bay and the disks showed up but i couldn't copy anything into it. does anyone know how hard it is to replace the SATA cable for the bottom bay? how does one do it?

 

SATA doesn't have cable select since there is only one device per channel [ for now ] ..

He can select the boot device by booting with " option " pressed ..

 

Yes .. install the drive in the mac .. boot with the CD .. on the first screen under the blue apple select disk util and erase / partition the drive ..

Then close disk util and either install the OS or reboot ..

 

*slaps head*

Don't know how I overlooked that - I need to get with the SATA program.

 

I use "carbon copy cloner" to clone my system onto the Raptor. Since I already had all my apps installed onto the stock 250GB, I just cloned the system (minus personal files) onto the Raptor and select it as the boot drive from the System Prefs.