Adding a second hard drive to my G5
I have a Power Mac G5 (dual 1.8ghz) that currently has a 250GB hard drive. I have a Seagate 200GB (Parallel ATA) that I wish to install as the second hard drive on my G5. Since the Seagate is ATA and my G5 has SATA I bought a SATA to ATA converter (this one). Now when I went to install/set it up I was able to hook up the SATA cord to the hard drive, but there was no where for me to hook the power cord to the hard drive. What do i do? Thanks in advance!
-Jordan
-Jordan
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In my G5 tower I've only installed SATA drives (a snap!) so I don't know specifics about ideal cable routings, etc. I'm sure a Mac upgrade / tweaker site will have all the details.
Originally posted by Ebby
Take out the DVD drive and add a Y cable to take power from that. That is how I snuck power to my cold CRT light.
how do i take out the dvd drive? i've removed stuff from computers before, but i dunno how to do with the G5 case.
thanks again guys for the help!
-Jordan
Originally posted by Ebby
There are two plastic clips you pry forward and the drive slips out. That's about as detailed as I can think right now. Hope that works.
is there a website somewhere that gives details on how to remove drives (and the like) from G5 cases?
thanks again!
-Jordan
Originally posted by JordanEatWorld
is there a website somewhere that gives details on how to remove drives (and the like) from G5 cases?
thanks again!
-Jordan
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/pdf/g5/073-0807.pdf
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=26276
I'm 90% sure I posted a similar link from my server only hours after JordanEatWorld's last post.
Wonder where it went?
EDIT: Oh, I sent you a Private Message on June second. That's what I was thinking about.
Originally posted by JordanEatWorld
is there a website somewhere that gives details on how to remove drives (and the like) from G5 cases?
thanks again!
-Jordan
http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_cente...directory.html