[G4] Much Ado About Harddrives

[Tony Gamble]

It'll be perfectly compatible... provided you also install a SATA card  
to run it, such as this one:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/SIIG/SCSATM12/

Once everything is plugged in, open up Disk Utility and format the  
drive with the Mac OS Extended file system.


Tony

On 16-Jan-08, at 6:02 PM, Kevin Walsh wrote:

> Howdy do fine people -
> the recent thread on diskspace/harddrives has been
> very stimulating as I myself am currently undertaking
> such an overhaul on 2 different Macs.  I appreciate
> all the information I have gained from you brainiacs.
> I have an issue to add to the harddrive craze.  I
> visited a local computer store in my ultra-hip
> central-Texas town and asked for any mac hardware.
> The propeiter, a decent fellow, offered to sell an
> Indigo iMac for 30 bucks.  I refused because 2 are
> enough for me but that's besides the point.  Other
> than that he didn't have anything specifically for
> Macs.  I didn't take no for an answer and decided to
> pry into his stock of SD RAM and ATA harddrives.  He
> had several new Western Digital SATA 250 GB HD's for
> 75 bucks a pop.  What a steal.  I thought I'd do some
> research to see if the model is compatible for my
> Sawtooth.  BTW, here's the model #: WD2500JS.
> I found some useful info at the following URL:
> http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1343&p_created=1112716146
>
> The info there might aswell be in Russian for me.  Any
> of you wise-guys mind taking a gander at it - see why
> wouldn't it be Mac compatible.
> Thanks - Kevin
>