ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) is the official name thatAmerican National Standards Institute group X3T10 uses for what the computer industry calls Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE).
I dont know what the physical dimensions of the drives are but go to your favorite electronics store (online or in-town) and buy a large capacity IDE drive. You can get them up to 250GB. I recommend either Western Digital or Maxtor. Get a 7200 rpm or better(I dont think they make a 10,000 rpm IDE drive). Get Carbon Copy Cloner, and clone your drive to the new one. If I remember correctly, you have an external drive (that is down temporarily) that you could or are using for back up. Take the 20 gig out of the system. The IDE drives are all the same size and will fit in place of the old drive. The 250 capacity should survive or quite possibly even surpass the drive you would get with a new computer when you decide to upgrade, given the longer useful life span of the typical Mac. Brian ONeal P.S throw out that Zip and get a flash drive. They are great! On Jan 6, 2004, at 9:14 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > I have a 400 MHz PowerMac G4 (version=2.9) and 704mb of ram. > > The machine has a 20gb ATA drive and a zip 200 and a cd/dvd drive. > > I want to get a second internal drive one with much greater capacity. I > want to make this new drive the primary startup drive. > > The manual which came with my G4 says I can use ATA devices including > ATA, ATA-2, and ATA-3 devices; ultra ATA devices and a variety of SCSI > devices. > > Whichever drive I get must meet these specs: > > 3.9" wide > 5.7" deep > 1.0" high (ATA); 1.6" (SCSI) > > I assume I don't want a scsi drive but which kind of ATA drive do I > need? > > Thanks. > > Harry > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2243 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20040106/f9d0386d/attachment.bin
