G4 and a new hard drive question

[jopeydrummer]

So I added a Maxtor 160gig drive to my G4. No problems there...a ll tite getting all the cables to fit and all...I also put in a PCI card that put 2 ide ports in at 133. I guess the internal ide bus is at 66. Now I want to replace my original drive. My question...does the boot drive have to plug into the original ide port or can I boot from one of the new 133 ports on the card? The card is a Sonnet Tempo ATA 133 controller card. So far audio running of the maxtor is working out well.

oooo ..and I guess i should get myself a copy of Carbon Copy to replace that original drive. Does that just put a copy of my boot drive onto another drive for me? Lke a firewire drive? That would be cool. I dont feel like spending a day installing OSx again.

Thanks for your help!!
Joe

[inukshuk]

I just tried Carbon Copy Cloner and it worked great. It copied and put it on the HD of my choice.
Warning I was going to buy a Sonnet card, but got confirmed from them that they are not bootable so I bought a "Seritek" card which is bootable and 64 bit compatible.
So now I have:
4 WD installed and so far I'm a happy camper and feel safe.
3-74 gb Raptors with a 5 year warranty
1-160gb Caviar with a 3 year warranty
So now I have my complete operation system on two HD's My main one, plus on another. My Caviar is for back-up and the Raptors for everything else.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=65&Language=en

[saymyname]

Not to butt in on your question but I have a simliar one and need to know what to do. I just installed a Western digital 200GB last night and all connections are fine...I am wondering what I do from there? I think I would need to do something within Disk utility but I have no idea what to do next. Anyone with any help on this?

Thanks!

[sndhse]

saymyname
You don't have to do anything unless you want to partition the drive or use it as your start up.