> I had to replace the hard drive on my wife's Quicksilver 733, OSX Tiger > yesterday. There were two drives in it and the boot drive went down. I > replaced it with a new WD and removed the secondary while I had it open, > however I put the jumper on the new one like the old primary, having > forgotten it needed to be configured differently since there was no slave > drive anymore. Needless to say, there were problems.
This rather large family of machines uses Cable Select cables, as the patent which Apple licensed from hp/Compaq (for Cable Select and generic generic PC reset and startup) needs Cable Select mode in order to issue the required Selective Reset commands to the drives. You are probably advised to option your drives for CS, and to let the cable do its magic. Alternatively, CS can indeed coexist with Master- and Slave-optioned, provided: 1) in a single drive situation, that drive is optioned for Master, and is physically the farthest away from the host (the motherboard), OR 2) in a dual drive situation, the drives have different options, one being Master, the other being Slave, and in this case it doesn't matter which is Master and which is Slave, as both are really "peers", IOW, there is really no such thing as a true Master and a true Slave. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
