[G4] Hard Disk upgrade for powerpc G4

[Jesper Bylund]

It's compatible, no problem. But you should buy a hard disk with max  
120GB. The ATA-chain in G4 towers from the first one (pci graphics)  
to Quicksilver gen 1 only recognises 120GB - you will not be able to  
use the rest if you buy a bigger disk.

More advise:
-- You do not have to take away the disk alredy installed. There is  
room for one disk more on the ata chain. Just be sure to make one  
disk master and the other slave (instructions normally on the disk)
-- If you really need more space than 120GB - consider buying an  
external Firewire disk. There you do not have the size limit problem  
and it is easy to keep if you in the future upgrade your computer model.
-- another possibility is to buy a pci ata 133 card. This way you  
will get faster transfer speeds and no size limit. (well, there is  
one, but no existing p-ata disk is anywhere close yet... :-)

Excellent web page for discussions about mac upgrades:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/


31 mar 2006 kl. 23.13 skrev marco santos:
> I have a powerpc G4 AGP Graphics and I would like to upgrade my  
> H.Disk. On the internet I checked my ATA Interface on the  
> motherboard is ATA/66. And , in all the places I checked for new  
> HDs, they only have ATA/100. Is it compatible???? If not, what  
> shoud I do???
> Please help...