G4 cube second ide HDD

[Akamadman203]

I want to add a second hard drive to my cube since my disk drive is broken and I want to dual boot Linux and Mac os but every time I plug in a second drive it doesn't let the cube post does any have an idea on how to solve this and allow usage of two drives I will be super happy if someone knows

 

[macuserman]

Might be to much power draw for two hardrives, you may have to do a VRM upgrade to make it work, but I'm not an expert maybe someone else knows better.

 

[Akamadman203]

Might be to much power draw for two hardrives, you may have to do a VRM upgrade to make it work, but I'm not an expert maybe someone else knows better.

Nah it's not a over power draw as Its just ssds but I said HDD for less confusion and I already have the upgraded VRM thanks for trying though

 

[macuserman]

Nah it's not a over power draw as Its just ssds but I said HDD for less confusion and I already have the upgraded VRM thanks for trying though

Are both drives the same and do they both work just by themselves?

 

[Akamadman203]

Are both drives the same and do they both work just by themselves?

They aren't the same but yes they both work as one has os9 and the other osx

 

[herd]

You didn't really explain what you're trying to do, but usually you need to set one IDE drive to master and one to slave to connect them to the same cable.

 

[Byrd]

... I'd be partitioning the drives over two; with older x86 OSes it was often good to have two separate drives and let the BIOS select which one, but doesn't really apply with Macs

 

[Akamadman203]

You didn't really explain what you're trying to do, but usually you need to set one IDE drive to master and one to slave to connect them to the same cable.

So I did set them to master and slave but when I turn them on the cube doesn't boot at all until I unplug one or the other

Also to the other comment I only have osx still installed but the other hard drive has been wiped down for Linux

 

[herd]

Do you have a firewire drive? You could try booting that with the drives attached to try and setup the IDE drives.

If each drive works on its own, but not together, then it sounds like a master/slave conflict.

 

[Akamadman203]

Do you have a firewire drive? You could try booting that with the drives attached to try and setup the IDE drives.

If each drive works on its own, but not together, then it sounds like a master/slave conflict.

I am going to mark this as solved as i just decided to do exactly this and just use a firewire drive and it doesn't seem to slow down the Linux install too much so i should be fine anyways thanks for helping me out i will see if the master and slave are set correctly and will report back if i find anything of interest