[iBook] Failed Hardrive

[Russ Gorman]

I year or so ago I updated the hard drive in my 600 mhz ibook to an  
80 gig which works great
I went here to find out about compatibility and compare performance:

<http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso>

<http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/>


On Jun 19, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Don Irving wrote:<

> Hey all
>
> I have a 14" iBook G3 900mhz(last of the G3 iBooks) whose hard drive
> just failed. I was playing the Sims & the computer got really warm, &
> then the game froze... I could hear the hard drive clicking away but
> it never did "un freeze" So I re-booted the machine & was faced with
> the missing sysem folder icon. So I booted the machine with the OS X
> disk & tried to run disk utility ... it recognized that there was a
> drive, but couldnt do anything to it.
>
> I've decided to replace the original Toshiba 40gig drive (MK4021GAS)
> with a larger  80-100gig drive, but all the drives that I can find are
> ATA-6 drives & the specs on my current drive show that it's an ATA-5
> drive. What are the differences between ATA-5 & 6 and can I use the
> ATA-6 drive in my machine?
>
>
> thanks
> -Don
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