2nd Hard Drive Installation

lucluc
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Hello People! Can anyone help me? I have just installed a 2nd hard drive on my G4 Quicksilver. Now, how do you initialize it? Shouldn't a hard drive icon appear on the desktop automatically? I will be using it only for media files. I am new to Macs so I need some help!!



Thanx



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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 9
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    No, the drive will not appear automatically if it has not been formatted yet.



    If you are using Mac OS X, go to the Utilities folder and open Disk Utility. The drives should be listed on the left column with their partitions. Select the drive you wish to initialize/format and click the Erase tab. Here you can name the disk and format it. If you want to split it into multiple partitions, click the Partition tab instead.



    If you are using Mac OS 9, I believe the app you want is called Drive Setup. I haven't used that app in years, though, and can't give any specific instructions for it.
  • Reply 2 of 9
    formelyknow as cybruinformelyknow as cybruin Posts: 31member
    also if you cant see the hard drive to format it in the app the above mentioned, make sure that you have the hard drive set to cable select, unlike PCs macs have to be set to cable select to see it.

    Also, the drive bay where your original IBM drive is, is for ATA100 drives only, the other bay are for ATA66 + ATA33, make sure you connect to the right one.



    If your mac still cant see the drive, it just doesnt like the hardware. A problem i have encountered both with countless PCs and my current first mac.
  • Reply 3 of 9
    mac man 020581mac man 020581 Posts: 632member
    So what would I have to do with a second hard drive that I want to install Jag. on?
  • Reply 4 of 9
    multimediamultimedia Posts: 1,035member
    [quote]Originally posted by Mac Man 020581:

    <strong>So what would I have to do with a second hard drive that I want to install Jag. on?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    After you have performed the above successfully, you can install from the Jaguar CD-ROM to it no problem. I would keep the size of the Jaguar intended first partition down to 10 GB if I were you.
  • Reply 5 of 9
    mac man 020581mac man 020581 Posts: 632member
    [quote]Originally posted by Multimedia:

    <strong>



    After you have performed the above successfully, you can install from the Jaguar CD-ROM to it no problem. I would keep the size of the Jaguar intended first partition down to 10 GB if I were you.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I don't understand, how you install jag onto it though?
  • Reply 6 of 9
    formelyknow as cybruinformelyknow as cybruin Posts: 31member
    Just install the jaguar cd, run the install script and it will reboot. On startup in will begin to go throught the install process, when you get the partition screen just simply choose which disk you want to install it on to. if you look at the options you can peform new partition setups and even choose to raid the 2 disks.
  • Reply 7 of 9
    mac man 020581mac man 020581 Posts: 632member
    ok i c! Thanks! I have never installed an OS on a Mac before. Thanks!
  • Reply 8 of 9
    mac man 020581mac man 020581 Posts: 632member
    Current specs:

    15-inch LCD flat screen

    700MHz PowerPC G4

    NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

    128MB SDRAM

    40GB Ultra ATA hard drive

    CD-RW Drive

    OS X 10.1.5 and OS 9.2

    -------------------------------------------------

    Could I just create another partition on my current hard drive (imac) and install jag on that, leaving the other two partitions unaffected? And not buy another hard drive? Thanks!
  • Reply 9 of 9
    mjpacimjpaci Posts: 79member
    On my B&W G3 at home and my Quicksilver at work I have two ata drives on the primary bus and neither of the drives are set to Cable Select. I've heard that CS is recommended, but not required, on the newest G4s. As long as one drive is master and the other slave, it shouldn't matter. One can also put ATA/33 and ATA/66 devices on a ATA/100 bus. The whole thing will slow down. Onc can also put ATA/133 devices on an ATA/66 bus, it'll just perform as an ATA/66 device would.



    CS is mostly used in the PC world, sorry.



    Also, Jaguar does NOT HAVE TO BE ON THE FIRST 10 GB on any modern Mac. That problem in Open Firmware has been fixed. Windows NT 4.0 still has to be installed on the first 7.8 GB, however, Mac OS X.2 is a little more advanced that NT 4 and Apple hardware is also a little more predictable than x86 hardware.



    --Mike



    [ 12-25-2002: Message edited by: mjpaci ]</p>
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