[G4] Internal Hard Drive compatibility for AGP

[Philip J Robar]

On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:57 PM, John Niven wrote:

> The motherboards built-in interface is only ATA33
> which is slow by todays standards though modern,
> faster drives will be backwards compatable. You will
> be limited to 128Gb even if the drive is bigger.

Actually the "hard drive" ATA interface is ATA/66 or more properly  
ATA-5, which is a significant improvement over the ATA-3 interface in  
the PCI G4 and earlier machines. The "cdrom/ZIP" interface is ATA-3  
and can also be used for a hard drive. Most modern drives run cool  
enough that they can live in the zip slot without a problem.

Phil
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