Mac G4

[pigoo3]

its a yes or no question

Have a good one.

 

[Alankellyeire]

Have a good one.

i'll take that as you don't know

 

[pigoo3]

i'll take that as you don't know

I would say that I have helped you a ton in this thread...so there was no reason to be rude!

- Nick

 

[Alankellyeire]

rude all i ask was for a yes or no.
if you don't know just say it.
its not that hard to say i don't know.

 

[harryb2448]

Yes that drive will work as it is an IDE drive, however if the machine is Digital Audio as you suggested it will only recognise the 128GB limit. WD make good drives but remember it is second hand.

 

[Alankellyeire]

Yes that drive will work as it is an IDE drive, however if the machine is Digital Audio as you suggested it will only recognise the 128GB limit. WD make good drives but remember it is second hand.

Thank you
thats all i wanted to know.
I don't really care if its second hand as i'm only going to be using this com for a couple of months

THANKS again.

 

[DarkestRitual]

How come everyone wants to throw a honken HD into there machine. If you use an external drive for storage you get around the limit. You could have a whole rack of them. I have a Sun Blade with 3 HD's in it. Eventhough its SCSI for you old enough to know what SCSI is. I got it at the Thrift store like for $4.00. You work with what you got.

That does make me feel old. Or at least that I was very geeky from a young age. I'm 23

 

[Mac SK]

i just want to know is there any other reason other than it being bigger that 128g that you can not see it working.

its a yes no or i don't know question

On some of the older g4's the machines are happier if the OS is in the first 10 gigs or so.

 

[Gigabit78]

Dual G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) Installation Disk

I am trying to upgrade the firmware for my PowerMac and it says I need to install OS 9 to do it, does anyone know what original installation disk came with the Dual G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) PowerMac.

I have tried booting from:

Mac OS 9, 9.0.4, 9.2, 9.2.1 & 9.2.2 and none of them are booting.

 

[Alankellyeire]

unable to install os

i got that harddrive and when i go to install panther on my computer it says unable to install panther on this hard drive

thanks for any help

heres a pic
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t78/alankellyeire/08102009.jpg

 

[pigoo3]

i got that harddrive and when i go to install panther on my computer it says unable to install panther on this hard drive

thanks for any help

heres a pic
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t78/alankellyeire/08102009.jpg

If I recall correctly...you were going to purchase a 250 gig hard drive for a Powermac G4 that has a 128gig hard drive limit.

Did you use "Disk Utility" to format the drive before trying to install the OS?

- Nick

 

[Alankellyeire]

If I recall correctly...you were going to purchase a 250 gig hard drive for a Powermac G4 that has a 128gig hard drive limit.

Did you use "Disk Utility" to format the drive before trying to install the OS?

- Nick

got it working