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Old January 12th, 2013, 10:06 AM
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Whats the biggest hard drive will a G4 Emac will see?
I am swapping a Quicksilver G4 for an Emac G4 800 mhz.
I already have an Emac G4 it runs Ubuntu
The new Emac I hope to install Tiger on a 160 gig Western Digital IDE hard drive
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Old January 12th, 2013, 10:40 AM
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G4s can only read the first 128GB of any hard drive. To use a larger drive you have to install a PCI ATA controller, which you can't do with an eMac. If you install a larger than 128GB drive, only the first 128GB will be seen.
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Old January 12th, 2013, 11:34 AM
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thanks I thought it was about 120-128
I can live with that
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Old January 29th, 2013, 01:28 AM
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i took a shortcut i bought another Emac for $30 with 1.25gig cpu USB2 10.5 All good
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Old January 29th, 2013, 04:13 AM
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Can't beat that for $30!
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Old January 29th, 2013, 07:16 PM
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Can't beat that for $30!
Yes they sold me a 1ghz cpu machine that was a 800mhz with mismatched ram.
So they swapped it for the 1.25 ghz machine no extra cost.
I believe a 160 gig HDD was optional from new so I am going to format the 160 gig drive in a USB enclosure and clone the OS
But first I have to learn how to use this Mac
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Old March 15th, 2013, 10:56 AM
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So i installed a 160gb WD HDD in the $30 1,25 emac and now we have the black screen of death.
So I bought a 1,42gb emac off a mate $10 a week for 3 weeks it goes but the beachball is present a lot
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Old March 16th, 2013, 08:29 AM
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so i did afresh install of leopard on the 1,42 ghz all good
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Old April 24th, 2013, 01:39 PM
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as for me I have 2.8 ghz
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