[G4] Bad Drives

[Tony Gamble]

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	I hadn't really heard much about the Gig G4's having corruption 
problems, though perhaps there are others on the list who might be able 
to shed more light on that.  But I do remember that the Rev. 1 B&W G3's 
had a nasty IDE controller that couldn't reliably handle any hard drive 
bigger than what it came with.  When I upgraded the hard drive in my 
Rev. 1, I used a Sonnet Tempo PCI controller which worked flawlessly 
and got around the onboard controller's corruption problems.

/tg

On 29-May-04, at 1:00 AM, Roger Harris wrote:

> I have read at various times that some of the earlier Power Macs (like 
> the Gigabit Ethernet G4s) corrupted drives. Was anything found to be a 
> remedy?
>
> A friend has a 2001 lightly used PPC G4 466 and this is the second 
> drive to bite the dust. These are ugly deaths also. It does not go 
> quick. The Mac has lots of hard to nail problems over a year period 
> before it is bad enough to be obvious as the drive. This Mac is like 
> having a Windows computer.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> roger
>
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