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Caution...
Not only should you not reverse an Ultra ATA cable, but hard drives should not be hosted on cables longer than 18-24 inches (at least according to the original ATA-66 spec; may have changed with ATA-100/133, but I think the G5 ATA bus is ATA-66, anyway). Longer cables are fine for optical drives.
Caution... FOLLOW-UP
Just a follow-up, it is a limit of 18 inches for HDD:
REF: Hard Drive Installation Details
We experimented with longer cables back when the B&W G3 and early G4s came out, trying to stuff HDDs in above the optical bay, and we had definite data loss issues using longer cables routed around the case to emulate the Apple cables. We always had to build custom cables to stay within 18" spec. To that end, seems like there's just enough room to snake an (unmounted) 3.5" HDD on top of the optical drive in the G5; just use a standard 80/40 ATA HDD cable, and respect the Master/Slave positions as outlined in the referenced article above. To the original poster, you should be *extremely* cautious about trusting this drive to critical data until you shorten the cable to 18". If it hosts your boot OS or VM swap, I'd be looking for KPs. |
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