[G4] Power Mac G4 Hard Drive installation info request

[Pat Smith]

I'm sorry John; I'm not technically savvy enough to recognize the  
problem you seem to see with the drive being "500Gb and ATA/100."
Is there a compatibility issue, or worse?

kd


On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:24 AM, John Niven wrote:

> Definitely NOT that drive. That drive is 500Gb and
> ATA/100.
>
> John
> --- Pat Smith <patorkd at suddenlink.net> wrote:
>
>> The model number for the Seagate drive , I think, is
>> ST3500630A
>>
>> kd
>>
>> On Oct 9, 2007, at 10:47 AM, John Niven wrote:
>>
>>> Cecil,
>>>
>>> I took a look at that eBay item. I still don't
>> know
>>> what the model number of the SEAGATE Barracuda
>> hard
>>> drive is. You should be able to read it off the
>> label.
>>>
>>> Really I think you bought the wrong thing since it
>> has
>>> a 50 pin converter, which is obviously intended
>> for
>>> the retro crowd (not much of a crowd these days)
>>> running really old SCSI based Macs (BTW I do that
>>> also: have a Quadra 950 or two :-).
>>>
>>> If you really want to use this drive to it's
>> maximum
>>> then you should go back to the eBay seller and ask
>> him
>>> if you could swap your 50pin converter for a 68pin
>>> one. Then you have to start looking for a suitable
>> PCI
>>> card, cable and terminator.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> --- "cecilhal at netzero.net" <cecilhal at netzero.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> John, appreciate your response.  Here is the
>> drive
>>>> info you asked for.
>>>
>>>> Later today I
>>>> will take close-ups of the SCSI drive/adapter.
>> Item
>>>> number: 170143286944
>>>> Cecil
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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