On Oct 10, 2008, at 6:16 AM, Simon Royal wrote:
> > Hi > > I have always had all-in-one Macs as my main machine so any drives > added > have always been external. Well now I have a PowerMac G4 'Sawtooth' > making > it easier to add hard drives and optical drives. > > I have a few queries. > > Firstly, I have a Pioneer 112D in a firewire case, could I add this > in as a > second optical drive. I currently have a zip drive underneath my main > optical drive, but could I add a second? I think there are problems to solve with the mounting bracket and bezel replacement. > > Secondly, I have a 120GB hard drive in a firewire case. Would there > be any > advantage of putting it internally. I currently have a 20GB 7200RPM > boot > drive and a 20GB slave drive, could I add a third hard drive into it? Its nice to have a backup / bootable drive in an external FW case ... a hard drive that doesn't get turned on every time you use the computer ... maybe housing a CCC copy of your OS X and other important partitions / data. Don't think there's the 128GB limitation on the external setup ... so maybe put the 120 inside, and get a 500 or 750GB for the external case ... if it has a good Oxford type bridge. > Does this Mac suffer from the 128GB HD limit and is that per drive or > collective drives? I believe if you use a controller PCI IDE/66-100-133 card for ATA drives, you can bypass the limitation of 128GB (I think the limitation is per drive, excepting RAID structures ???). Also think there's software like Tech Tool Pro that will help with the onboard ATA bus interaction with the drive. Not very familiar with that technique. Have you seen Mactracker for well displayed summaries on all Macs made? http://www.mactracker.ca/ Others will have more details. Best, Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
