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It's still a bit early, but the weather forecast for the Vintage Computer Federation Swap Meet in Wall Township New Jersey so far is this- Hot and humid, temperatures in the low 90s (32 C) with the chance of thunderstorms. The good thing is that the swap meet starts early, around 8 AM. Wall...

Already did that. Got everything working. 🙂 I have an external 500 GB drive partitioned into 2 250 GB drives: one for OS9 and the other for OSX -the two lowest drives. The new internal storage is also 250 GB. I left the shielding off the back of the DVD ROM and new SSD; it only gets in the way...

Okay, I decided to have the second internal SSD run off the same chain as the DVD drive. At least, I won’t have to worry about power cable management for the time being. I’ll need to set the DVD drive to master…except it doesn’t indicate how. 🧐 Edit-never mind. Found out...

Another view of the SSD adapter…

Okay, did what you said, left the new SSD (OSX Internal Storage) on slave, and it works… …except for power cable management. I’ll need to make a drive to MicroCenter.

Alas, this set-up will need to go internal (which it was going to do eventually, anyway). While the connections work, it won’t physically go into the case, unless I have extensions for the data and power cables that can wrap/fold. So, this 250 GB SSD will go on the ATA 66 connector in the G4...

Sorry for the lack of responses; just getting back to this now. I should add: this is all experimentation. Thank you all for your helpful responses!! 😃 Now…while yes, I’m sure this will be slower due to USB 1.0, I still want to see what happens when I make this mod on the Maxtor external HD...

Hmmm. Edited to add: yeah; Firewire 400. :confused:

I got a 5 port USB 2.0 PCI card yesterday off eBay. It works fine. Thanks for the responses, everyone! The link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255692476861

I could save that adapter to put an additional internal drive in the MDD-I still have spaces for two additional drives in it. I might just order that external case you recommended! :)

Interesting side note: I wonder if there is a limitation to what size HD my MDD can view. I have a 1 TB Iomega drive, and while I can view it on my Mac Mini, I can't view it on the MDD; I get a prompt saying its "not recognized by this computer". (This is under Tiger; I have dual boot-the other...

I already ordered a Crucial 250 gig SSD and this. The Maxtor HD case is still good, so I want to continue to use it...

Would this work?

Further disassembly.

Hey folks...so, this is the first time I'm trying this. The drive was an 80 gig Maxtor external HD, and it bit the dust. I want to convert this to a 250 gig SSD external drive for my G4 MDD. What kind of adapter must I get to hook up the SSD?

Okay, I got the 5 port USB 2.0 card. Long story short-that flash drive went bad. I tried others and they work-on the G4.

At least with two of them. The flash drives work fine on the other Macs.

Okay, I tried viewing the contents of the USB drive under OS 9.2. I can't view the files under List, but I can view them as Buttons or Icons. On my iMac (OSX Yosemite), I can view the flash drive just fine under various Views. Edited to add: I tried the PMU reset button anyway to see if it...

BTW- I already put in an order for a 5-port hi-speed USB 2.0. PCI adapter card for my MDD.

Hey folks, So, I'm playing around with the G4 MDD. I'm coming across some odd little problems- 1) After getting the PSU back from repair and installing it in the G4, I booted it up once or twice-then didn't touch it for a week. When I booted the G4 up later, I got a blank screen. After doing...