On Feb 12, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Nicholas Fantuzzi wrote:
I have Mac Mini G4 (see object) 1,25 GHz 1GB RAM, and I'm booting Leopard 10.5.8
I own a similar Mini. I will make some recommendations based upon my experiences. First, I'd strongly recommend you overclock the 1.25 GHz to 1.42 GHz. I've never heard of a 1.25 GHz that wouldn't safely overclock, and the modification is relatively easy. Second, I think that Tiger 10.4.11 is the optimal OS for the G4 Mini. You can run Leopard 10.5.8, but it will be about 15-20% slower than Tiger 10.4.11. This is true for all PPC Macs; whereas the reverse is true for Intel Macs, they're faster with Leopard.
I have had an internal IDE drive from WD, it's a Scorpio Blue IDE 250GB.
Great. Nice drive. I assume you're booting from this HD?
So I think is useless partition the 500GB to 180GB.
Yes, this is useless. Don't do this.
Secondly, I've tried with a 80GB SATA and the system boots, even though I can't see any second drive with disk utility and system profiler.
I STILL don't understand? WHERE is the SATA drive? Are we talking about an external Firewire or USB SATA drive enclosure? If the SATA HD is in a USB enclosure this is NOT bootable in the G4 Mini, you need an Intel Mini to be able to boot USB. Otherwise, you can't use ANY SATA HD internally in the G4 Mini unless you have some sort of adapter. Are you using some sort of internal SATA-to-PATA/IDE adapter?
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