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TiBook 867 Hard Drive compatibility
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Hello,
My Powerbook G4 867 from late 2002 finally died after 8 years of duty. Actually only the hard disk died. I can log-in in single-user mode (cmd-s when booting) and get my data back, but as soon as I want to start the full graphical mode, I get I/O errors and the system complains about libraries that could not be read.
So I guess my hard drive is good to throw away (by the way, it has been behaving really erratically during the past three years --with loud, stange noises--, so it's not much of a surprise).
Since the powerbook is still perfectly usable otherwise, I don't want to throw it away and am looking for an hard drive replacement. The drive it came with in 2002 uses the Ultra ATA/66 norm, something that is getting hard to find by now. Will a newer hard drive, like a S-ATA, be compatible with my old TiBook?
Regards,
Serial Loser
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Originally Posted by SerialLoser 
Will a newer hard drive, like a S-ATA, be compatible with my old TiBook?
No, you need a U-ATA drive. It can be U-ATA 66, 100 or 133 as long as the size does not exceed 128 GB.
(Last edited by P; Nov 29, 2010 at 08:53 AM.
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Thanks for your reply. It's sure going to be harder to find one of those... But since there's no other solution... Does it matter if the drive is larger than 128 GB? I understand that the extra GB won't be recognized be the system, but will the (crippled) drive still work?
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SL
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9.5 mm right? Or does it take thicker drives?
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Originally Posted by SerialLoser
Thanks for your reply. It's sure going to be harder to find one of those... But since there's no other solution... Does it matter if the drive is larger than 128 GB? I understand that the extra GB won't be recognized be the system, but will the (crippled) drive still work?
The larger drive will work if you make sure to format it correctly. Make one partition that is smaller than the 128 GB limit (with some margin) and don't use the rest at all.
You don't mention which country you're in, but newegg currently has 22 different drives available with a U-ATA interface.
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You're looking for Parallel ATA, more commonly abbreviated as PATA (as opposed to serial, SATA). As mentioned, Newegg has plenty of these.
Steve
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Thanks for your help!
I'm in France by the way (Paris).
Cheers,
SL
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