[G4] Bad Drives

[David DelMonte]

Another limitation of the onboard IDE controller is that it can only 
support up to 128GB. As controllers and drives are relatively 
inexpensive (cheaper than a service call!) I suggest adding a 
controller (approx $50) and replacing the drive ($50 to $200 depending 
upon the capacity required. Most big companies plan to replace their 
computers (and therefore disk drives) every three to four years. I dont 
think it should be that different for small office and home users. 
Drives are like car batteries - lots of use = lots of wear and tear!

David


On May 29, 2004, at 2:35 AM, Tony Gamble wrote:

> <<{-*-}>>
> 	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
>>