[Cube] Maximum size for internal Cube hard drives

[Mike Gilpin]

I've installed a 250 Gb disk in my cube by modifying the Open Firmware information so it uses the LBA driver built into Leopard:

http://nanchatte.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/128gb-large-hdd-lba48-support-on-the-g4-cube-with-leopard/

This hack will stay permanently unless you reset your PRAM.

Mike Gilpin
mike at gilpinhome.net



On Jan 8, 2010, at 1:50 PM, phoenix wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 16:29, liza bear <lizajbear at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 1/ Is it safe to install a 160GB internal drive in the Cube? I mean, it won't crash the machine?
> 
> No problem, but any capacity beyond 120 GB will be ignored. 
> 
> > 2/ I've seen some on E-Bay made by Hitachi and other, non-Apple companies. Is that advisable?
> 
> Hitachi makes excellent hard drives. I have Hitachi hard drives in my G4 Cube, G3 Powerbook and G3 iBook, and they perform splendidly -- quiet, and no problems. Same goes for Fujitsu, who makes the OEM Apple hard drive in my Macbook Pro. 
> 
> cheers,
> A.J.
> 
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