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Will it work?

Dobermann

Dobermann

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I have a G4 500mhz single processor.
I want to get a new hard drive I was thinking of a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB*IDE ATA/133 8MB cache 7200RPM Drive to take the place of my existing 20 gig drive. Will I be able to just plug it in and formatt it with osx??

Thanks
Dob
😕
 
Dobermann said:
I have a G4 500mhz single processor.
I want to get a new hard drive I was thinking of a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB*IDE ATA/133 8MB cache 7200RPM Drive to take the place of my existing 20 gig drive. Will I be able to just plug it in and formatt it with osx??

Thanks
Dob
😕
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no not with out an different harddrive controller card. the on board controller card for mac will only recognize about 126 gigs of your HD. (i have experienced this myself, i had a 160 only got 126 found out the older macs did not support big drives) so unless you want to buy another card for your coputer buyt a drive thats about 120. oh and there is software that will inable the big drive option but i hear it curroupts data. good luck
 
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