[G4] Power Mac G4 Hard Drive installation info request

[Eric Wood]

Using a Mac-compatible SCSI card should mean any SCSI hard drive will be
bootable, just as a SATA HD on a Mac-compatible SATA card is bootable,
even in a Mac as old as the Power Mac 7200, as my own SATA card
advertises.

If Cecil already has the SCSI drive, then getting a SCSI card to install
in a free PCI slot is no big deal. It even becomes a nice way to upgrade
to some really nice hard drives in the future. I wonder what the size
limitation would be on UW-SCSI? Probably more than 128 GB.

Eric

On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 19:26 -0400, James Asherman wrote:
> If it's a G4 it takes ATA drives. As mentioned the connectors are on  
> the motherboard and if it doesn't have the cable it is a standard  
> item in stores.
> You can get a SCSI card if there is some reason for YOU to use a SCSI  
> drive, but for the boot  drive at least, you want the regular  ATA  
> drive like they sell everywhere.
> And the SCSI info that you posted as relevant to your drive and it's  
> connection was relevant years ago. There are NO SCSI connectors in  
> G4's and forcing it to eat SCSI for breakfast is just more trouble  
> than it is worth.
> On Oct 7, 2007, at 6:08 PM, cecilhal at netzero.net wrote:
> 
> > My G4 is not BEIGH but SILVER.   Are you saying that my system  
> > cannot be fitted with a SCSI card to match the connector on the  
> > SCSI card.  Not sure I can upload pictures here.  I would love to  
> > take pictures of the drive, and SCSI adapter for a better  
> > reference.  Like they said, a picture is better than a thousand  
> > words.  Are pictures allowed on in this group.  Or maybe you can  
> > give me a personal email address where I can upload the pictures.  
> > Thanks.
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