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Power Mac hard drive?
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iMpathetic
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Um... Yes, most likely there exists, somewhere, a hard drive that fits into one...
Why not post this as a WTB in the Marketplace, I ask you?
Why not post this as a WTB in the Marketplace, I ask you?
Consultant
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Parallel ATA is also known as "IDE" or "PATA".
128GB is only limited as native support or not. If it doesn't have native support, you can use "Intech ATA Hi-Cap" software to go beyond the limit (but you need to make a partition of a specific size). However, if you don't know what harddrive PowerMac can take, then you might want to get a harddrive 120gb.
All PATA drives require setting a jumper to work.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/add_2nd_drive/index.html
Make sure that the powermac is tested as fully working. Typically reasons for selling an incomplete computer is that something is broken.
Put a Seagate 120GB Barracuda 7,200 rpm 8MB cache HD in it.
Then put an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition 128 MB VRAM AGP video card in it.
Then put an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition 128 MB VRAM AGP video card in it.
iMpathetic
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I'm not sure of the specs, we have never been given any other than AGP graphics. I'm not even sure if it's a Graphite or Quicksilver, single or dual CPU model. My Graphite 533 (Digital Audio) G4 with an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition 128MB VRAM AGP video card, a 7,200rpm 120GB Seagate Barracuda, 768MB of RAM and OS X 10.4.11 runs pretty fast with a 22'' Samsung BW225 Wide Ratio LCD.
