[X4U] What type of drive will work?

[Dan A. Currie]

Jeff Carruthers wrote:
>
> On May 9, 2008, at 7:47 AM, 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.
> The simple answer is no. If you put the ATA100 drive into the ATA66 
> bay, it will not see all of the contents of the drive (the maximum for 
> ATA66 is 125 Gb, I believe). If you have two 125 GB drives, you could 
> temporarily put the 300 GB ATA100 drive into the second ATA100 bay and 
> move files to the new drives in the ATA66 bay. If the drive is full, 
> you'd still lose some files.
>
>
*Thank you ALL!!  I can get by with a 120GB HD until this one gets checked!!

Thanks again,

Dan*