Go to your local computer store and buy the biggest, IDE/ATA drive you can afford, mount it and plug it into your tempo card, re-boot and use the apple disk utility to format/partition the drive.
I have an 8600/G4-700/trio/512MB/ 120(I think)GB-HD/OSX.2 and the IDE/ATA drive is the only drive I have running on the machine. Unless you want to have a drive you can take places, the IDE/ATA setup should be cheaper > It is time to get a jumbo HD and I need help choosing > between ATA and Firewire. I have installed a Sonnet > Trio card and should now be able to use either of > those formats. My concern is that I have only SCSI > experience and since ATA is so Windoze oriented do I > need to worry about formatting or are the HD's > platform independant? Same question for Firewire or > 1394 drives. If ebay or whoever, doesn't say it works > in a Mac, can I expect it to work in mine? > -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
