URGENT PLEASE HELP!!

Roxy · Messages: 137 Registration: 01.07.2003

This may sound stupid, but I'm installing a second internal hard disk drive into my mac.. and the manual says as Step Number 1: Configure appropriate jumpers and goes on to talk about "configure your disk as your slave disk" Ok, so it is a Ultra ATA 100 80gb disk. I looked on the Seagate site and it says to have the little "jumper" (I think? the plastic thing) not on ANY prongs to be slave. I've done that. I attatched the drive how it said, by connecting both slave ribbon and power. I start the computer and it is a flashing question mark then a flashing little folder icon with a face on it.... This is killing me. Any ideas?? Bear in mind i know NOTHING about drives. Thanks guys, I've been waiting for this drive for a month, and now THIS>

EvilOne · Messages: 56 Registration: 11.08.2002

seems a good start for you. They have very detailled step-by-step tutorials for things like that, just search the right section according to your machine config. Good luck Aloha

Analog Kid · Messages: 81 Registration: 10.14.2003

if its a slave drive just take the jumpers out ! the only drive that needs it is your master.

bren · Messages: 56 Registration: 02.16.2003

I just installed a Western Digital internal ATA drive, and to make it be the slave drive, I DID NOT take the jumpers off- there was a diagram in the manual that showed me the position- so it would seem that taking the jumpers off is not universal advice. When I booted my computer, it hung for a second, but then started up- the drive was not readily visible, I had to use drive setup to initialize the drive first.

themadhatter · Messages: 37,960 Registration: 02.26.2001

that's sound advice. always check the jumper settings, usually shown on the back or top of the drive. there is no universal setting, even for drives of the same brand.

Brad D. · Messages: 2,366 Registration: 11.19.2001

I was just talking to a friend about this, and I think you have to actually change the original drive to MASTER. It is not automatically set as master, it's "single drive only". Does anyone else agree with this?????? Im undergoing a similar task at the moment and struggling! Joe, how did you initialize this drive exactly??

BGM3 · Messages: 2,683 Registration: 08.30.2001

Ummm Last night, I took my secondary driveout of my old G4, and istalled it into my new G4. All I did, was unplug the cables from the drive, installed it onto my new mac, right on top of the drive it came stock with. I hooked up the cables, and powered up my mac. The first time I did it, I did not push the plugs firmly into the drive, and it gave me the "FLASHING ?" I shut it down, made sure those plugs were pushed in firmly, and it booted up fine. Get Up, Try pushing those plugs in tightly, the ribbon, and the smaller plug. Hope this helps. P.S. dont freak, its going to be ok.