Home▸ Forums▸ 68kMLA▸ PM G4 ATA question Thread PM G4 ATA question 68kMLA PowerPC 6 posts Feb 9, 2009 to Feb 15, 2009 View original thread ↗ #1 Mon, 9 Feb 2009 - 01:27 68kMLA Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable? #2 Mon, 9 Feb 2009 - 01:47 68kMLA Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable? Click to expand... 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 68kMLA 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 68kMLA Yes. The Optical drive will be the master on that bus. #5 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 - 15:38 68kMLA 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 68kMLA Update... Success! I have two hard drives now on the optical drive ata bus.
#1 Mon, 9 Feb 2009 - 01:27 68kMLA Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable?
#2 Mon, 9 Feb 2009 - 01:47 68kMLA Can you connect a hard drive to the second ata plug on the optical drive cable? Click to expand... 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 68kMLA I wasn't I was going to use it as part of server storage. I assume that cable is slave right?
#5 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 - 15:38 68kMLA 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 68kMLA Update... Success! I have two hard drives now on the optical drive ata bus.
