<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've installed a 250 Gb disk in my cube by modifying the Open Firmware information so it uses the LBA driver built into Leopard:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://nanchatte.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/128gb-large-hdd-lba48-support-on-the-g4-cube-with-leopard/">http://nanchatte.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/128gb-large-hdd-lba48-support-on-the-g4-cube-with-leopard/</a></div><div><br></div><div>This hack will stay permanently unless you reset your PRAM.</div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><div>Mike Gilpin</div><div><a href="mailto:mike@gilpinhome.net">mike@gilpinhome.net</a></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Jan 8, 2010, at 1:50 PM, phoenix wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 16:29, liza bear <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lizajbear@yahoo.com">lizajbear@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br>> 1/ Is it safe to install a 160GB internal drive in the Cube? I mean, it won't crash the machine?<br>
<br>No problem, but any capacity beyond 120 GB will be ignored. <br><br>> 2/ I've seen some on E-Bay made by Hitachi and other, non-Apple companies. Is that advisable?<br><br>Hitachi makes excellent hard drives. I have Hitachi hard drives in my G4 Cube, G3 Powerbook and G3 iBook, and they perform splendidly -- quiet, and no problems. Same goes for Fujitsu, who makes the OEM Apple hard drive in my Macbook Pro. <br>
<br>cheers,<br>A.J.<br><br>-- <br>"there's more to life than gears and horsepower<br>not much, admittedly, but you get the point..." -- Road Kill <br>
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