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PC-drives in Mac??
Name: Glennster Date: March 1, 2001 at 03:42:16 Pacific
Comment:
I´ve got a Power Mac G3/266 (the grey one, not the tower) and I want to use a IDE harddrive. Can I use one like the IBM-deskstar without having to buy an IDE PCI card. I have replaced the original cd with a SCSI-cd, so I have free cables that fit PC-harddrives. If I can do this, can I use both ATA66 and ATA100 drives?
Name: mrmille Date: March 2, 2001 at 04:23:39 Pacific
Reply:
Yes yes yes! The ide chipset works with any drive. IBM, Maxtor, fujitsu . And... You can use both u-ata100/66 drives but you will only use them as an u-ata33 drive since your chipset only support ata33 mode. The only thing you have to do is to put your cd-rom in slave mode and the HardDrive in master mode for maximum stability.
good luck / eric
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Response Number 2
Name: veep Date: November 28, 2001 at 09:47:30 Pacific
Reply:
Save yourself alot of grief. Check out "MacWorld Mac Upgrader and Repair Bible" boof by Todd Staufffer especially Chapter 8, Hard Drives, page 244 (in the 2nd edition).
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