Adding additional internal hard drive

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Hello, I am a Mac Newbie. I got an excellent deal on this one and although it is old, I LOVE IT. I purchased an additional hard drive last night. I have searched and read as many post as I could find before asking. I have done everything that was suggested to do regarding installing another hard drive. I do not have an additional controller card but I thought that I read somewhere in post that I would need a card if the hard drives were to exceed 128GB. I have existing 80G 7200 rpm and bought a IDE 120GB (model WD1200JB00CRA1). I tried it first by just adding it to the back and it would not power up because I had the cabling where it was seen first and the existing drive set to cable select and I did not put any jumpers on the new one. Next, I tried making it slave, then tried making it also cable select with the original one being seen first. Still will not power up but at least it gets to the screen with the apple on it. I think it may be because it is a slower drive or is it because I have to have an additional controller card?
 
I appreciate your help and I am not at all disappointed with the response that I received by asking a question. I can only play with my MAC when I am not working. Otherwise, I am stuck using my PC for work. Unfortunately, not near enough time loving my MAC.
 
What I meant was that there have been, in the last 10 years, around 20 or more different models of Macintosh computer sold. If you would like us to help you with your hard drive issue, we're going to need to know what model of Mac you're working with, as the instructions for remedying the problem would vary greatly depending on what kind of Mac you're using.

Is it a G3? G4? G5? If so, which specific model of G3/4/5 is it? Some G3 and G4 models required that you jumper the drives specifically as "master" and "slave," while later models required that you jumper them as "cable select." Without knowing what model of Mac you have, though, it's nearly impossible to move forward with the problem.
 
Conversations are mutually exclusive. Unless you specifically post in this thread, then you're not posting in this thread.

While quantum entanglement is real and will eventually give way to both time- and space-travel, sadly, these threads on this forum are not entangled in the same way. ;) If you post over there, it's over there... if you post here, it's here, and never the two shall meet.
 
In my experience you make both cable select on a mac.
What kind of mac do you have? I don't think a G3 would really be able to support the extra power from having another drive spinning.
 
Only some Macs support "cable select," others (older Macs -- B&W G3, Yikes! G4m AGP-based G4) require a master/slave jumper setting.
 
Hello Again! Ok where is over there cuz I can't find it? Kidding!! Anyhow, when I asked the original question I entered all of the specs for my computer, are those no longer available for anyone answering a question? Ok I am losing focus. What it is,..... is>>

Model Name: Power Mac G4
Model Identifier: PowerMac3,6
Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (3.3)
Processor Speed: 1.25 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 1 (boohoo)
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.4.8f2
ATA Bus:
HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B:
Model: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B
Revision: 1.03
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
Low Power Polling: No
Power Off: No
HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B:
Firmware Revision: 1.03
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw

FireWire Bus:
Maximum Speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro:
Chipset Model: ATY,RV250
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 64 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x4966
Revision ID: 0x0001
ROM Revision: 113-99702-131
Displays:
Apple Studio Display:
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Depth: 32-Bit Color
Core Image: Software
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.7 (9J61)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.7.0[/B]

Maybe too much information! Anyhow, I have the 80G that came with it and I purchased a WD5000KSRTL 500G SATAII and got rid of the 120G Ide that I purchased at the First Saturday sale downtown Dallas. I would like to make the 500G the primary hard drive and use the 80G as an back up (time capsule?). I do not want to lose the info on the 80g. I am assuming that I install the SATA by using the IDE to SATA par/ser ata bi-dir converter,copy over the 80g or use carbon cloner? I don't mind doing the research and finding out for my self except I get distracted when I start looking up support or go to the apple site and start downloading widgets and before you know it I am in space checking out images from the Hubble telescope. Please advise!
 
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