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Join Date: Dec 2005
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What kind of hard drive do i need to get for my Blue and White g3? i'm currently trying to upgrade it to a 20 gig drive i pulled out of another computer. but thats not working. is any pc compatible drive good, or do i need to get a special mac one?
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Any IDE/EIDE/ATA/PATA drive under 128GB (137 billion bytes) should work fine.
Check the jumpers on the back of your 20GB to make sure you're not having a master/slave conflict.
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Moderator  Join Date: May 2001
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Any harddrive will work (there are no special pc harddrives). If you use drives which are larger than 127 GB however, you will only be able to use the first 127 GB. These drives have to have a parallel ata interface however. Newer drives use serial ata.
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ok, thats what i was hoping for. if a drive is the only one on its ide channel should it be master, single or cable select?
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Master or Cable Select should work fine. Use Master if you want to be sure.
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Administrator  Join Date: May 2000
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Use Single when you have one drive on the channel.
Master or Slave will work with a single drive, but your Mac may assume that the 'other' drive is present and can delay bootup by a full minute, waiting for the other drive to mount. That was the behavior under OS9. Single produces immediate bootup with no artificial delay.
Do not use Cable Select at all on this model. Apple did not add CS support to the IDE controller until very late in the G4 models.
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