On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 16:50, John Taylor wrote: > If anyone has a spare 6GB > hard drive or larger that will go in my computer that would be great. A > Mac one would be preferable to avoid having to use third party hard > disk drivers.
Hmm. I was able to install a disk (a WD Caviar, in fact) in an OS9/OSX dual boot G4 the other day. It was a normal off-the-shelf drive from Austin, and no more Apple than an Intel CPU ;-) It was formatted using Drive Setup and installed with OS9 first. The only difference between it and the old drive was the massively increased storage space and small speed improvement. Is it possible that the days of artificially blocking users from using 3rd party ATA disks are over? A shiny new 40GB disk can be obtained for as little as $80, but buying one with a larger cache (in the $100 range) would seem wise, as even on old machines the disk can be a very important aspect of system performance. The price point seems to be the 80GB 7200RM disks with 8MB caches for about $110. Of course, I can't tell you for sure that the disk will work in your mac model, only that an 80GB 7200RPM WD JB works fine in one of the G4/400s here. Double checking would be strongly recommended (and as you say, an old mac disk will be cheaper and safer, albeit slower and smaller). > I'm also looking for a PCI ATI Rage 128 card that will go in my > computer. Apparently this will make OS X go significantly faster, in > addition to my 3D games. I don't doubt it. That brings me to something I've been wondering about for a while - on AGP macs, is there any requirement to use an Apple-modified card? It'd be nice if I could pick up a standard Radeon 9200 (I don't care about the ADC on the Apple ones) and use that. -- Craig Ringer
