Re: G4 Cube

On 01/04/19 15:12, [email protected] wrote:
> The hard drive recently died in my G4 Cube, so I just purchased an IDE SSD.
> Like you do.
>
> The CD-ROM drive died a few years ago, so, as it were, I have an
> unoccupied IDE connector in my Cube. In theory, I could get a second IDE
> SSD and then I could use softraid to RAID-0 stripe them for extra speed.
> Considering the IDE bus would almost certainly be my throughput
> bottleneck even with only one SSD, that would be pretty useless.
>
> On the other hand, who else among you has a G4 Cube with striped SSDs?
>
> Anyway, no question here, just enjoying the fact that this old
> machine can still run modern software thanks to the effors of this
> community. Perhaps, I may even do something important with my Cube and
> RAID-1 mirror the SSDs for redundancy.
>

macppc doesn't support booting from softraid. If you want to run RAID on 
macppc, you'll need a separate non RAID disk to boot from.