[G4] G4 450 Harddrive Question

[John Niven]

Go here to get lots of info:
http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g4saw.shtml

If you are correct about your model you have a
on-board ATA 66 interface that should have a short
cable with a master and slave connector (same as
PC's). It doesn't matter, where your drive comes from,
but that interface will only support drives up to
128Gb (you can have two if you like. There is a second
interface that serves the DVDrom/ CDrom/ Zip drive.
It's possible to put a third drive where the zip goes,
but it will be slow.

Another way to go is to get a SATA PCI card (like from
Sonnet) and then you can have any moden SATA drive (or
three :-). Personally I'd do that before considering a
CPU upgrade. Also the adverts are correct, you can run
Tiger on your old machine (and it will work better).
Get 1Gb of ram and you will be supprised at how usable
an old Mac is as compared to a modern PC. You might
consider a cd burner/dvdrom as well.

John


--- Rob Marles <rmarles at rogers.com> wrote:

> Hi There
> 
> New to Macs in general, coming from a PC background.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how many drives the controller
> will support in a G4 "Sawtooth" AGP PowerMac (I
> think I've described the model right, has a Gigabit
> Ethernet card as well)
> 
> Will any IDE drive work (ie an old 40gb Western
> Digital pulled from my PC?)
> 
> Thanks>
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