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Put the drives in Master / Slave, still doesn't work. I'm out of ideas ...

So I tried adding the HD to the "rear" slot and setting the jumper settings of both HDs to "Cable Select". That didn't work too well, or at all I should say. It did however disable one of my RAM slots as I'm down to 512 Mb. Edit: I added the drive to the "front" slot again on the ATA/66...

I finally managed to remove the HD in the "rear" slot. The Manual forgets to mention you have to enscrew a hard to see screw before you can "gently" slide the carrior up. Anyway, pried it off and didn't hit the motherboard too hard in the process ;) First thing I did was check the jumper...

The jumper is set correctly, Disk utility doesn't recognize the drive (it won't be default when System Profiler doesn't physically detect anything in the slot). I'll try booting from the Panther CDs after I try installing the drive into the ATA/100 slot. Maybe it's something to do with...

Found the Powermac MDD Manual. Installed the second drive into the ATA 66 slot. Set the jumpers to Cable Select (as the manual told me) and it ... doesn't work. Obviously. System Profiler doesn't even recognize anything is in the bay ... *sigh*

I found out that the PMG4 has an ATA 66 and an ATA 100 bus. Err, the HD I'm using comes from a computer that had ATA 66 so I'm assuming the HD has ATA 66? Does this sound remotely sensible at the least?

I recently purchased a Powermac G4 MDD Dual 1.25 Ghz because I was told it was the fastest machine I could get that would still run OS 9. I want to add a second, OS 9 disk (I use it for one specific application I can't miss and can't do on OS X). So what I did was format the original HD...

Ah, interesting document :) Indeed, 9.2.1 and it says I need 9.2.2 on a 12". Any ideas?

I have the Mac OS 9.2.1 Official Installation CD and want to install it on a TiBook G4/867 but it won't recognize the CD as bootable (neither while holding 'c' down at start up nor in System Preferences in the 'Startup Disk' pane. Help would be appreciated, Thanks, Frederik-Jan

Worked like a charm :) Thanks

I just bought this HDD second handed (I have a USB 2 card, no worries there) from a friend, he erased the entire HD for me at his place but I'm only allowed to 'read' on the disk when I plug it in to my Mac! I tried rebooting, and inserting later and some combinations, neither worked. When I...

Bob ... not Mac OS X The Eject application works like a charm btw :D Thanks!

I'll give that Eject application a shot. Thanks for the numerous replies. But for most of them: I'm trying to open it in classic so booting OS X is not a solution as Bobw pointed out ;) Something about a stone and two times ;) There is no place to put a paperclip in either :( (this was in my...

Is there any way to open the CD tray if the Eject button on the keyboard is not working? It's a Quicksilver G4 so there is no button and no place to put a metal in to force the tray open. The Apple keyboard doesn't seem to work in classic. And NO, opening the Tray in Mac OS X is NOT a solution...

I bought a Quicksilver G4/733 yesterday because I was sick and tired of all the problems I was having with the upgraded old G4 I used to use before that. I installed the Quicksilver with OS 9.2.2, copied all the data from the old 40 Gb drive and then proceeded to install the 120 Gb drive on the...

We solved the problem on a quite onorthodox manner: 1) Connect the old HD and the OS X HD and cross your fingers the computer boots. This took me 3 tries. 2) Open Preferences and set the startup disk to the OS X drive. 3) Reboot 4) Open Preferences again and make sure the OS X drive...

Problems are described in this thread: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49507

I plugged in a much older IDE HD into my Sawtooth G4 which already had 2 HDs (120Gb w Mac OS X and 40Gb for Mac OS 9). So to do this I removed a HD and just plugged the smaller/older one from the Performa in. This gave some problems with booting hard drives but I presumed this was just because I...

I see. I removed the HD and was going to plug it into a casing (I have some left from other external devices such as HDs, CD Readers, etc.) Anyway, I found out that it does indeed use IDE as was pointed out and I plugged it into the Sawtooth G4 I have. Resulting crashes are much more worse ...

I'm trying to repair an old Performa 630 I still have but I want to get the data off of it first. Of course the entire system is bugged, boot up disks are broken so there's not much of anything I can do except delete the thing. Of course this is out of the question before I get a chance to...