AGP 400 G4 back from the dead... and needing another HDD and a USB2 card!

Question

Hello!
Well, my old 400mhz Sawtooth G4 is back up! OMG! It's so much faster than the old 400mhz iMac DVSE (G3) from the same year - and I don't know if that's due more to the processor, cache, or video ram, but i'm not complaining!
I have a WD hard drive that's currently installed in my iMac - an 80G, EIDE drive. Inside the G4, I currently have a 60GB Maxtor drive (that I removed from the iMac a while back). I need to put the HDD in - but seem to have a problem. if you've ever seen the HDD sled that the the original HDD comes in - you'll notice that it is, for lack of better term, a double-decker sled. There's a lower "slot", if you will, that contains one drive - attached using the screws on the top of the HDD. There's also a second "slot" above that appears to need me to screw in this HDD using screw holes on the side! This would be fine - except that this sled bumps out on one side about 1/4" - so I'd need very long screws to install the HD - I don't have them.
Here's a picture: If the HTML won't work here, just visit the site.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c384/digidan/G4-HDD-annotated.jpg
I realize it's a bit difficult to see, but it's the best I have at the moment. See the circled screw, and how it's "bumped back" from the rest of the sled? Also note the short IDE cable.
There are other drive bays to towards the front, but the installed IDE cable only has enough length to reach this top bay. In addition, the ATA/IDE cable that came with the WD Drive is not long enough to reach to the next bay over. There's got to be something I'm missing. Next to going out and buying an ATA controller, there must be some way to use a second drive.
Ideas?
Secondly, I need to find a USB 2 PCI cad. I've heard that you just need to make sure that the card box says "Mac" on it somewhere. Our local best buy has a 2-port card for $30, and CompUSA has a 4 port for $40, both specifiy work with Mac. Is there a place online that has these cards for less, but is not ambiguous about OS?
Also - would a USB 2 PCI card slot give put out enough power to use a USB thumb drive, or charge an iPod?
Thanks, and let me know if I didn't make that clear!
-Dan
15" 1.67 Powerbook G4 (Jan 2005), Slot loading 400mhz iMac DV SE,   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   4G Clickwheel and 5G Vid iPods, 400Mhz Sawtooth G4 (work in progress)

Answer 1

If you're only going to have (2) hard drives
installed in the G4, you'd be better off moving one
of the single drive sleds to the dual-drive stack
bracket's position. Sonnet's "TCB-AGP" ribbon cable kit, includes custom-made
cables having adequate spacing between the two drive
connectors, allowing them to be mounted side-by-side.
This eliminates heat issues caused by placing one
drive on top of the other, preventing the
dissipation of heat generated by the lower drive.
True, and a pretty good idea, but I don't want to pay $30 just yet - I'll be back in texas (and to a Fry's Electronics store) by thanksgiving - So I'll have a bit of a... shopping list Since they have pretty much every concievable type of component you can think of, I'm sure they'll have some cheap, individual ATA cables I can make work. Is it just a standard ATA-66 cable? I suppose ATA 133 is backwards compatible too, considering the 60 Gig drive is ATA 133! (who knew?!)
As per the "long screws", I misunderstood what you were trying to say, and the way it was supposed to be mounted. I thought that it was supposed to be mounted from only one side! Needless to say, this didn't make sense. I didn't realize that the left side of the bracket actually bends in like that - neat.
So, all that's left now is to get a USB 2 card. OWC has an Iogear (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/IOGEAR/GIC251U/) card that looks good - does anyone have experience with this card and the sleep issue? I realize that it's a rather random problem, so there's no way to know for sure whether or not it will have probems, but I'd like input on it if anyone has some.
And I STILL think internal USB/FW ports aren't much more than a gimmick.... I have yet to see a "Internal USB device". Oh well, I suppose it's good to have if/when it's ever needed.
Thanks,
-Dan