[G4] Complicated MDD Snafu - Question #1

[Jon]

Thank you.

Would this apply to stand alone hard drives as well?

I want to use desktop drives that are  bootable.

jonny

On 9/17/13, Geoffrey Peters <enclydion at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I have a MDD 1.25 ghz, FW400. What is the largest size drive this
>>machine will
>>  support, for backup purposes?
>
> All onboard IDE interfaces will recognise devices up to 500 GB
> capacity (which is as high as they made IDE drives anyway). There are
> four 3.5" bays, two at the rear which sit next to the CPU, to at the
> lower front.
>
> If you want serious storage for your room-heater, look at getting an
> SiiG, ACARD or Sonnet SATA controller card for one of the PCI slots.
> You can then put up to 2 TB in each bay, and they're all bootable,
> too.
>
>
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