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G4 gigabit / dead 2nd ATA bus

Renegade

Well-known member
Hi,

I recently bought a G4 Gigabit mobo from an ebay seller.

It arrived few days ago undamaged, but after testing it this aftertoon, I detected a weird problem.

The second IDE bus is not working (the one for optical drive). In fact,the Apple System profiler doesn't even show the 2nd IDE bus... (in both OS 9 & OS X 10.3). xx(

I've tried everything I could (various know-good cables, drives, zapping the PRAM, ...).The rest of the board works perfectly.

So I'm just wondering, is this a common problem with Gigabit mobo ? :-/

Regards,

Renegade.

 
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