[G4] What type of drive will work?

keith_w keith_w at dslextreme.com
Fri May 9 06:35:14 PDT 2008


Michael Koch wrote:
> 
> On May 9, 2008, at 7:47, Dan A. Currie wrote:
> 
>> Hello All,
>>
>> My MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM / 120 GB and 200 GB HD / NETSCAPE 7.2 
>> / OS X.4.11 is losing one of its drives.
>>
>> According to the manual it can handle 6 drive / storage devices. The 2 
>> ATA / 100 bays and the 2 Optical bays are filled but the 2 ATA / 66 
>> bays are empty.
>>
>> My question is will an ATA / 100 storage drive work in one of the ATA 
>> / 66 bays?  I would like to put a 300 GB ATA / 100 dstorage drive in 
>> one of the bays.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Dan A. Currie, Jr.


> Yes you can use any ATA ( IDE ) drive with out problems.
> you CAN NOT use the newer STAT drives without a new card ( STAT )
> 
> have a nice day
> Michael Koch
> mkoch at ncwcom.com

You're right, but that should be SATA, for Serial ATA.

keith whaley


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