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PM G4 ATA question

PM G4 ATA question PowerPC 6 posts Feb 9, 2009 — Feb 15, 2009

#1 Mon, 9 Feb 2009 - 01:27

Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable?

#2 Mon, 9 Feb 2009 - 01:47

Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable?

I used to on my graphite. Just make sure the jumpers are set correctly. The bus is slower, so don't boot from that drive.

#3 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 - 04:13

I wasn't I was going to use it as part of server storage. I assume that cable is slave right?

#4 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 - 06:13

Yes. The Optical drive will be the master on that bus.

#5 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 - 15:38

Well I just threw in a 27GB WD on there and it worked without a hitch, even without jumpers!

Thanks for the reassurance guys. I tried this before and it didn't work but I found out the cable was bad.

#6 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 - 05:06

Update...

Success! I have two hard drives now on the optical drive ata bus.