Is the 4GB an ATA or SCSI drive? If its an ATA, you must have a rev c
rom to use 2 drives per bus (rev b may also work). There are jumpers
for master slave, not ID. The beige g3 does have a SCSI bus, and you
should be able to use up to 6 devices on it, each must have a unique ID.
Also, you should have more free bays. There should be no need to
remove the floppy drive. There are 5 bays in these, so floppy, 2 HDs,
and CD. Maybe you also have a zip drive but either way no need to
remove the floppy. And the floppy does use a different connection so
youd probably need a new cable.
If you have old parts at your disposal, you could put in a SCSI CD-ROM
and then you could use the stock cable and ROM. Note this is only a
problem if you have an older ROM and ATA cables with only 2 connectors
(1 motherboard and one drive), and the 4GB is not SCSI (which it
probably isnt).
Chris P
Andrew MacDougall wrote on 10/8/05, 3:28 PM:
> I've got a beige tower with two drives, the stock 6GB with OSX 10.2.8
> and all Apps and files related to OSX, and a SCSI 2GB with OS9.2.2 and
> associated files. It is used primarily in OSX.
>
> I have a 4GB drive from a beige desktop I'd like to add to free up space
> for OSX. I'm hoping I can just remove the floppy drive and use that bay
> and connection for the new drive. I may have to change the jumpers to
> give it a new ID.
>
> Assuming I'm ok that far, which of the following folders can I move to a
> separate drive without causing problems with OSX?
>
> - Applications
> - Library
> - System
> - Users (running multiple users on this unit)
>
> TIA for any advice,
> Andrew MacDougall
>
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