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the original hard drive is an SCSI then... the cable that attaches it to the card has 4 connectors on it... they are all male... the new hard drive is IDE and it looks like the motherboard has a connection on it that is the same as the one on the hard drive... the new IDE hard drive has a male...

okay... the IDE cable has 4 connectors on it... currently is has one going to a card... and at the end of it is the original hard drive... the connectors on the IDE cable are all male... the hard drive has a female pin set... it seems to be original because it has the apple logo along with...

okay... the hard drive that originally was in the computer and was running OS9 and functioning has a female connector and the ribbon cables are male... the problem with the new drive is that it has male pins... is there a converter for this so that i can plug it into the ribbon cable?... the...

The hard drive says that it is ATA/IDE... it seems that the pins on it would connect to the ribbon cable... but they are the same as the ones on the ribbon cable... they should be opposite of each other but they are the same... is there some sort of converter or something to make them connect?

I have a 500 Mhz G4 AGP. I installed OSX on an external lacie so that I could get it working. I also bought a new DVD drive and HDD. The drive went in fine. The problem with the HDD is that the pins on the left are reversed from how they should be to fit into the ribbon cable. The original...