Re: 250GB HDD inside an iMac G4

2010-10-07 Thread Elliott Price
Looks like it shouldn't be a problem, providing you're running 10.2 or up.

From LEM (http://lowendmac.com/macdan/05/1024.html):

Big drives are supported under OS X 10.2 and later in iMac G4s, eMacs, 2001 
Quicksilver G4s,* 2002 Quicksilvers, and all later desktop Macs. All Titanium 
PowerBook G4 models with DVI video and all 15 and 17 Aluminum PowerBooks 
support big drives.

If, for some reason, it still doesn't work, you might consider getting an IDE 
to USB bridge, and using one of the newer Macs for formatting. These are fairly 
cheap, and very handy to have. 


-Elliott




On Oct 6, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Midnight rider wrote:

 Hello everyone, I recently randomly found a 250GB IDE drive in my basement, 
 and it works. I wanna know if i can put it in my iMac G4 without that 128GB 
 limit. If i partition it with x2 125GB partitions, will it work? Also, I 
 can't do that because I have no macs that are capable of using an HDD bigger 
 than a 128GB IDE, unless it's a SATA, and that's where my G5 iMac and macbook 
 pro come in.
 
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250GB HDD inside an iMac G4

2010-10-06 Thread Midnight rider
Hello everyone, I recently randomly found a 250GB IDE drive in my basement,
and it works. I wanna know if i can put it in my iMac G4 without that 128GB
limit. If i partition it with x2 125GB partitions, will it work? Also, I
can't do that because I have no macs that are capable of using an HDD bigger
than a 128GB IDE, unless it's a SATA, and that's where my G5 iMac and
macbook pro come in.

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