what is the largest HD that can be installed in a Dual 1.25 G4?
Hi,
does anyone know what the largest capacity single HD I can put into a Dual 1.25 Ghz G4 (the dual boot one) without resorting to any 3rd party PCI cards?
also, how many internal HDs can be fitted into this case - again without any modifications?
thanx
does anyone know what the largest capacity single HD I can put into a Dual 1.25 Ghz G4 (the dual boot one) without resorting to any 3rd party PCI cards?
also, how many internal HDs can be fitted into this case - again without any modifications?
thanx
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Originally posted by spooky
Hi,
does anyone know what the largest capacity single HD I can put into a Dual 1.25 Ghz G4 (the dual boot one) without resorting to any 3rd party PCI cards?
also, how many internal HDs can be fitted into this case - again without any modifications?
thanx
Second question first. I'm gonna guess it is the MDD model (Mirrored Drive Door). Those will take three additional drives for a total of 4 with no additional cards needed.
IIRC, that machine didn't have any limitations as far as disk drive size goes. It's fairly modern.
If there is a limitation, it's like 137 Gig partition sizes so you can install a 300 Gig and have several partitions...
http://MacSales.com has a lot on the partition size limit on the Macs...lot of good reading.
thanx 4 your reply.
I now seem to have a rather strange problem. I have the above mentioned machine (MDD) and I have done the following:
Placed a 120GB HD (Drive A) as Master on the ATA100 bus
Placed a 120GB HD (Drive
Placed a 80GB HD (Drive C) as master on the ATA66 bus
that's a total of 3 HDs.
If I boot from my tiger DVD I can see all 3 HDs and can choose to format or install on any of them via disk utility (although the 80GB Drive C is always listed first).
However, if I boot from an OS9 cd (I need classic) then I can only see Drive C! I reformatted all the drives via Disk Utility to have MACOS9 Drivers and this still did not help. I can't understand why drive A is not visible to install OS9 on! I also cannot see why drive B is not visible.
I then used my Norton System works CD to boot off and Disk Doctor claims only drive C exists. If I boot from the hardware test CD it sees all three drives fine!
ANyway if you have any ideas that could shed any light that would be great!
As an aside I installed Tiger on Drive A and everything seems fine except that every few hours if I install something the installer gets stuck where it looks for a drive to install on. All 3 drives are vsisble but the icons are greyed out and the cursor just keeps spinning.
Thanx
BTW I also have a toshiba combo (stock) in the upper tray and a 106D in the lower tray (both cable select)
It starts to fade I do not think I have used OS 9 or classic since 2004
In reply to your questions:
As a work around, since OS 9 is really portable, just go ahead and install it on drive C, and then move the "system folder" to whatever drive you want.
I can install onto Drive C but when I copy it onto Drive A and choose startup disk from Sys Prefs it lets me select the OS 9.2.2 folder on Drive A but then on restart hangs - it flashes the disc not found icon for a while then gets to the smiley mac face and hangs.
Are they all HFS+? Or do you have Journaling on A and B?
It starts to fade I do not think I have used OS 9 or classic since 2004
They are all HFS+ and All are journaled
This is really bizarre! I need OS9 running as I have some really old software at work that I need to maintain compatibility with for the next 12 months at least and the software does not run well under classic.