Dual booting the easy way.
  • Jim
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    I just finished adding some hardware to my Quicksilver Powermac.
    I purchased a surplus APS external SCSI drive housing from a vendor on Ebay.
    Originally it housed an 18GB drive which I've replace with a 75GB 15K RPM Ultra320 drive using an 80 pin drive adapter.
    The drive connects to the original power and controller cables of the housing and I have the whole thing connected to an SCSI controller in my Mac.
    Now when I have the drive powered, the system can boot OSX (quite fast).
    And when its not powered, the system boots MorphOS from the internal ATA100 drive.
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »08.03.12 - 22:47
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    I couldn't resist updating this setup when the chance came to get a good buy on an eSATA controller card.
    I just won a Sonnet Tempo X4p PCI-X SATA II RAID card on Ebay ($25 plus $15 S&H).
    It will work in my G4's PCI slot and can be moved to a G5 later.
    I also picked up a Rocketfish RF- HD3035 SATA Hard Drive Enclosure so that I can install one of my SATA II hard disks into it.

    Now I just have to figure out what to do with the SCSI hardware (I think I'll use it in my PC to backup my hard drive).

    Edit - What to do with the SCSI drive? Keep it. The TempoX4p does not support bootable drives! My mistake. I guess I'll save it for use in a G5.

    [ Edited by Jim 29.03.2012 - 17:49 ]
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »28.03.12 - 00:04
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