[G4] My Yikes Broke...

[Philip J Robar]

On Jul 11, 2006, at 9:31 PM, Noah Miller wrote:

> I purchased a Yikes G4 off of ebay. ...
>
> I was looking for hard drives, and I remembered that thing about  
> not getting all of the memory because the yikes has only an Ultra  
> ATA 33 bus (I think).

You can use up to an 128 GB drive on this controller. You need to to  
find out if you have a rev 1 or 2 motherboard. The rev 1 boards have  
problems with some IDE drives. Check at http://www.xlr8yourmac.com  
for details and a pointer to a test program. I have used several  
modern IDE drives in my rev 1 Yikes with no problems. (I did run the  
test on each.)


> Then I was thinking that maybe I should upgrade to serial ATA,  
> because it would cost me the same price to buy an IDE as it would  
> to buy the same sized Serial ATA and a 4 port card for it.

Serial ATA is the way to go, but serial drives are still a little  
more than parallel drives and don't tend to have the huge rebates  
that make some parallel drives so inexpensive.


> Then I also came across the problem Of getting an OS. I would like  
> to run Jaguar, but I need a DVD drive to install. What should I do?  
> It would really help if someone could help me out.

You should be able to get a DVD drive for $20-30 (or less used), but  
isn't a new controller, new hard drive, and DVD drive (plus what you  
could get by selling your Yikes) a good chunk of the cost of a  
Sawtooth which would have a G4 processor?


Phil