Adding a new Hard Drive in the Zip Drive Bay
Today, I was looking inside my power mac 466 Digital Audio, and I realized that it appeared that a third hard drive could fit into the Zip Drive bay. I has a spare HD and Zip drive lying around, and I realized that they are the same height and width. I know that they use the same connectors (on some dells, the zip drive is plugged in with the HD 2 connector), so is it possible to connect a third hard drive in the Zip bay. In the powermac manual, apple doesn't say that you can, but is it possible, and if it is possible, is it harmful to the computer?
Those particular PowerMacs have two IDE controllers with master/slave setups. One IDE controller is for the optical and Zip drives and the other is for hard drives. You can have two IDE hard drives on the double sled in the back of the PowerMac. You can have a single hard drive each on the middle and front sleds also, but you'll need a separate PCI controller for those drives. That would give you four hard drives without doing anything contrary to Apple's original design. You can put a pair of 120GB IDE hard drives on the double sled and built in IDE controller in the back and then put a pair of 1.5TB SATA drives on the middle and front sleds hooked to a PCI SATA controller. If you need more than that you've still got FireWire and Gigabit Ethernet external storage... What are you doing that needs that much storage anyway? Can't you just burn stuff to CD or DVD and get it off your hard drive(s)? I do video encoding for a TV network and I really don't use much hard drive space. I burn my finished work onto CD or DVD and then delete it off my hard drives.
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The bay for the Zip drive on all G4's earlier than an MDD model is considerably smaller than a standard drive bay, which is what an optical drive needs.
Open your case and take a look at the relative sizes of the upper optical drive bay and the lower Zip drive bay.
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http://www.shanescot.com/photos/BW_mod/
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Ignore. I figured it out:)
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So many possibilities.
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Buy an external enclosure to re-use you old drive.
Buy a new external drive at least as large as as your intended new internal drive. Make it self-powered.
Download CarbonCopyClone (free download, relatively small).
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Install the original disk in the external enclosure.
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Boot from that new external drive that has the carbon copy clone. CCC will be installed on it and it will be bootable.
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Tried windows diagnostics, and besides telling me to reset everything and turn router off and on etc. I am in an endless loop.
Other Mac products are not impacted by this issue.I see no direct connection.. a printer and the computer setup for internet are not related.
But it sounds like the router in the wife's office is now in the wrong mode..
If you have an existing main router replace the second router for a switch .. that is the easy way.
Otherwise you need to bridge the router if it has that option.. most do not. Or use wan bypass.. where you turn off the dhcp server in the router and fix its ip to match the range of the main router.. this is the hassle of using router as a switch.
BUT I am making a huge number of assumptions.
What I need is the full network layout.. a quick picture would help.
I need main modem.. main router.. (maybe same box or different).. make model and current IP address and how dhcp is setup.
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Where can I get a new hard disk in the UK?
I have a Hitachi 80Gb internal hard disk (Hitachi HDS722580VLAT20) which TechTool tells me is failing. I can't afford to have a new one fitted, so I think I'm going to have to do it myself.
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The term IDE /ATA/ATA100/ATA66 etc etc are all pretty much one and the same thing so don't worry about that. The only drives that won't work are the new Serial ATA (SATA) drives that are used in new Macs/PCs. You should buy a faster 7,200rpm drive with a cache of at least 8Mb.
I bought my 320Gb drive from dabs.com - I've bought, RAM, disk, media, printers and whole macs from them and have been very happy with the prices and service. If you wanted to shop around I like dealtime.co.uk.
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neencirksena wrote:
I have a computer with 2 hard drives on it. I had my music on hard drive C and i had to move the music to hard drive D, but now itunes cant read the music files so all the "!" show up next to the songs. How do i get itunes to read my music files from hard drive D now???
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