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Can I Use A Regular ATA IDE Hard Drive In My Mac?
Name: Bruce Date: February 9, 2001 at 04:57:26 Pacific
Comment:
I'm needing to get a bigger hard drive for my Mac, and was wondering if anyone knew if I could use the same kind of hard drive that you would use in a PC? My current hard drive is a Western Digital, IDE. Thanks.
Name: fieraci Date: February 10, 2001 at 08:09:00 Pacific
Reply:
Yes you can. You can probably just ADD one more drive rather than merely REPLACE your existing drive. Your mac should have the room and the additional connector on the IDE ribbon cable (and drive power cable) depending on what model mac you have. Be sure that you respect the slave/master jumper settings. Main drive=master, secondary=slave.
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Response Number 2
Name: Gerald Date: February 15, 2001 at 10:39:30 Pacific
Reply:
What kind of Mac? Not all have IDE busses. G3/G4 should be okay. Older than that, I would check Apple's Support area at their web site for specifications.
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Response Number 3
Name: veep Date: November 28, 2001 at 09:08:07 Pacific
Reply:
For an IDE hard drive to work on MAC OS the computer must have a built in or subsequently installed IDE interface/controller/circuit board and the drive must:
1) support the identify command 2) work at PIO mode 2 performance level or greater 3) have write caching turned on.
The MACWorld Upgrade and Repair Bible by Todd Stauffer is an excellent resource on this topic (Chapter 8).
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