on 04/3/24 9:28 PM, Greg van Hartesvelt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Be gentle, I'm new at this. I have a B&W G3 300 320 RAM with the 6 gig > HD. I'm guessing it is a rev 1. Running out of room fast. Office Max > has WD drives on sale regularly, but they say G4 and above. What's up > with that. I checked with their tech support and they referred me to > Apple. You would think they would know what their drives would run in, > or at least why they label them the way they do. > > There seems (to me) to be a lot of conflicting info out there about > putting a drive in one of these things. > > I'm open to recommendations as to what to put in this thing. I would > like to go to at least 60 gig, but you guys seem to have MUCH more > experience than I. >
I currently have a 40GB 7200rpm WD HD running Jaguar in my rev.1 B&W. I have it connected to an ACARD PCI ATA-100+ controller card, but I've also had 30GB drives attached to my onboard ATA port without any problems. Just remember if it is a rev.1 B&W that you have, then you can ONLY have ONE hard drive attached to the onboard ATA port. You'll get problems if you try to attach more than one hard drive to the onboard ATA port. In order to use more than one drive you'll need to invest in a PCI ATA controller card. Go for the ATA-133 kind. Is there any more description that you can give regarding this "G4 only" hard drive? i.e. storage size, speed, type of connection (IDE, SCSI, Serial-ATA, etc.) -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
