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<blockquote data-quote="jakeroberts" data-source="post: 379984" data-attributes="member: 29740"><p>The IDE and power connector are both standard. I bought a used one off ebay for $20. The bad one I pulled and the new one I installed both said pioneer on them. Be careful of the connectors on the hard drive it is easy to dislodge them while removing the optical drive. Make sure you get some thermal paste for the CPU heat pipe. It is my understanding the g4 iMacs don't have any thermal sensors on the CPU so it will literally sit there and fry itself if the CPU isn't cooled. From a Unix standpoint you could find the command to list the ATA devices the kernel sees and match it with something similar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jakeroberts, post: 379984, member: 29740"] The IDE and power connector are both standard. I bought a used one off ebay for $20. The bad one I pulled and the new one I installed both said pioneer on them. Be careful of the connectors on the hard drive it is easy to dislodge them while removing the optical drive. Make sure you get some thermal paste for the CPU heat pipe. It is my understanding the g4 iMacs don't have any thermal sensors on the CPU so it will literally sit there and fry itself if the CPU isn't cooled. From a Unix standpoint you could find the command to list the ATA devices the kernel sees and match it with something similar. [/QUOTE]
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