Apple G4 manual Attaching Scsi Devices to Your Computer

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To put your computer to sleep, you can

mpress the power button on the front of the computer

mselect a sleep mode in the Energy Settings portion of the Control Strip

mchoose Sleep from the Special menu

When the computer is in sleep, the front panel power button light pulses.

You wake the computer by pressing the power button on the front panel of the computer or by pressing a key on the keyboard. With some Apple monitors, you can also use the monitor power button to put the computer to sleep and wake it.

Not all PCI cards or replacement AGP cards comply with the computer’s power management standards. If you install a non-compliant card, the computer can still enter sleep mode, but it will not achieve maximum energy savings. You can use the Apple System Profiler to find out whether an installed card is compliant.

For more information about energy-saving options, see Mac Help.

Attaching SCSI Devices to Your Computer

Some Power Mac G4 computer configurations come with an Ultra160 Dual Channel SCSI card installed in a PCI slot with one or more internal SCSI hard disks connected to it. You can install additional internal SCSI hard disk drives up to a maximum of three drives. It’s recommended that you only connect SCSI Ultra160 LVD hard disk drives to the internal port of the Dual Channel SCSI card. You can connect external SCSI devices, including older drives with slower data transfer rates, to the external port of the Ultra160 Dual Channel SCSI card. Because the card has two channels, one connected to the internal port and another connected to the external port, connecting older devices to the external port doesn’t slow down the transfer rate of the internal hard disk drives.

Apple recommends that you use only SCSI Ultra160 LVD devices as internal hard disk drives.

To connect older SCSI devices that use a 25-pin or a 50-pin connector—such as Zip drives, scanners, or DAT drives—you need to purchase SCSI adapters, or purchase and install an additional “legacy” SCSI PCI card (one that supports older devices).

For more information about using different types of SCSI devices with your computer, see the Tech Info Library at Apple’s Web site: til.info.apple.com

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Apple G4 manual Attaching Scsi Devices to Your Computer