[G4] Switching hard drives.

[Fred Thiel]

I am running OS 8.1 on my Performa 6300, but the website at 
http://ssddom01.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/85256AB8006A31E5872 
56A94006FA3BE links to a PDF download for the model no. 
IC35L020AVER07 listed as a Deskstar D60 GXP, PDF file 
D60GXP_comw.pdf, that came with my 733 that also had printed on the 
HD as having an Apple HDD firmware 2001. It's the original 40 gig 
that came installed with it.

I thought all hard drives were created equal, however, this one 
appears to me to be an exception. I don't have OS 8.5 or 8.6, so I 
don't know if I could format it even with that version of Drive Setup.

For what it's worth
Fred

>In a message dated 8/24/03 10:30:44, thiel at mynewroads.com writes:
>
><<  After researching
>the IBM drive, I found out that it would only work with a G3 or G4
>Mac. You might check out the mfg. specs on the model of the HD you're
>planning to transplant >>
>
>Real strange situation. Can you tell me which model IBM drive it was that
>gave you all that trouble? I'd like to be able to keep an eye out for any that
>come my way at the program I do volunteer work with.
>
>I have used many (in the hundreds) IBM drives in different Power Macs and
>have never found one that "would only work with a G3 or G4 Mac". As 
>long as they
>showed up in the Drive Setup window and let me format them, they would work
>in any Mac that I was working on at the time, from the 6400 up to the 9600
>models and G3 desktop and towers. It didn't matter whether the drive 
>was an IDE or
>SCSI drive as long as I was using a newer version of Drive Setup such as the
>version that comes with OS 8.5 or 8.6
>
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