Dennis. The drives in both PC and Mac are the same, it is the physical formatting and partitioning that makes the difference.
Windows uses FAT32 and NTFS, while Mac OSX uses HFS+. Apple use a lot of Seagate and Western Digital drives, but any IDE will work in both. However using the IDE bus on a Sawtooth limits you to 128GB. To go higher you will need a PCI ATA controller. Simon --- www.simonroyal.co.uk and www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) -original message- Subject: Hard drive? From: Dennis Myhand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 06/09/2008 21:40 I am putting together a G-4. A Sawtooth to be exact. I have access to a number of hard drives to use. An IDE interface is what I will end up using. My question is, will any IDE drive work (less that 120 gigs)? Or, do I need one specific to a Mac? I am moving from the PC world into Macs. Will the disk utilities take care of the formatting and drive setup or do I need something originally built for Macs? Thanks, Dennis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
