[G4] SATA drive

[Paul Moortgat]

One can also buy a SATA card and a case and use it as an external drive.

Paul Moortgat

On 21 Jun 2005, at 04:21, Tim Collier wrote:

> I took the 160 gig HD out of my G5 iMac and replaced it with a 250  
> gig.  What to do with the old one......I purchased an SATA card and  
> plugged it into my wife's dual 1 gig G4.  It has definitely made an  
> improvement.
>
> Tim
> On Jun 20, 2005, at 9:26 AM, Peter wrote:
>
>
>> A friend is upgrading the HD on his G5  and has offered my the old  
>> SATA drive  for my G4. Meantime, he has given me a patch lead  
>> (which he says is connected to a power supply) with a SATA drive  
>> connection. He assures me it should be plug and play but, I'm not  
>> so sure. Any advice?
>>
>> [System- macintosh G4 Digital Audio; OSX 10.4.1; 1GHz; 896 Mb SDRAM]
>> -- 
>> Peter
>>
>> The box said "Windows '98 or better", so I bought a macintosh.
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