Any tips for finding these? eBay? They seem to be shipping from China. 64 GB or 128GB would be fine. Want to get it for my PowerBook G3 Pismo.
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Best place to buy IDE SSD?
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Does it have to be an IDE SSD? You could use an arrangement like this instead with a M.2 SATA SSD in a 44-pin IDE adapter in a 2.5" enclosure.
Works fine for me with G3 and G4 Macs.
Works fine for me with G3 and G4 Macs.
Does it have to be an IDE SSD? You could use an arrangement like this instead with a M.2 SATA SSD in a 44-pin IDE adapter in a 2.5" enclosure.
Works fine for me with G3 and G4 Macs.
Seconding this.
This solution — modern SATA paired with SATA-to-PATA adapter — works like a charm for all my PATA Macs, including my Pismo-contemporary, the late 2000 iBook G3 (in its case, it uses a SATA-to-mSATA adapter and a 120GB mSATA SSD).
That's what I did! About $30 on Amazon. Any issues or thoughts on formatting such a modern drive for Mac OS 9? Plop it in, boot from CD, and initialize?
I have a SATA SSD connected to a PATA adapter in my iMac G3 that very happily boots OS 9 whenever I need it. The drive was formatted and partitioned in Disk Utility normally.
Just be sure to partition the first partition to, say, 8GB, for Mac OS 9 exclusively, followed by the remainder being partitioned however you like for OS X or whatever else you decide to have.
Also handy to have, especially if the SSD you find the best deal on happens to be at or above 128GB, is this kext on the Garden.
I allocated almost 20GB for mine and it was the 2nd partition.
Was this wrong? Its always worked.
It feels like just yesterday that tool was payware and now it's available for free. Obselesence, eh?
I allocated almost 20GB for mine and it was the 2nd partition.
Yah, 8GB is just the advised suggestion for a first partition if you plan to run OS 9 outside of Classic mode and you have a disk which exceeds the 128GB cap [correction: this rule applies only to the Old World Macs, though considerations of 128GB or less, without Hi-Cap, still applies].
One of these days, just for fun, I ought to shut down my iBook G3 (which has a 120GB SSD) and reboot into OS 9, outside of Classic mode, just to see whether the way mine’s set up will let the system boot (currently, that disk has OS 9/OS X on the /disk0s2 partition and other projects, like Debian sid, on subsequent /disk0 partitions).
But but but I have joy in seeing just how ultra-stable my build of Tiger runs on that hecking thing (my record is around 400 days; currently it’s 165 days and counting.
The first generation of tech companies (and developers), post-World Wide Web, are “retiring” now, and in their vacuum are monetizing-oriented software development startups, whose principals were born after 1990, who relish telemetry’ing the cow chips out of users with their clumsy, unimaginative bloatware and… oh look, a new babbling creek in the forest I can go yell at…
Late reply, but I will just say…I paid for that in 2009. I bought myself a 320GB WD HDD for my birthday that year, dropped it in my TiBook and found out about the large drive limitation. Of course I was using Panther at the time, not OS9 annnnddd…that Mac died in November 2009 so there's all that.
I still have my receipt.
Ask for a refund now that it’s free of charge!
LOL!Ask for a refund now that it’s free of charge!
I'll need to resurrect the company first.
My enclosure that I got looks nearly exactly like that, if not the same. Same speckled back and everything. Working like a charm!Does it have to be an IDE SSD? You could use an arrangement like this instead with a M.2 SATA SSD in a 44-pin IDE adapter in a 2.5" enclosure.
Works fine for me with G3 and G4 Macs.
Hi there! Looking to buy an M.2 or mSATA adapter. Since this post is so recent, do you have a link to where you bought yours? Thanks!
M.2 NGFF SATA SSD to 2.5 IDE 44pin Converter Adapter with Case Black | eBay
The second type is the M.2 NGFF of the B-KEY interface, is usually the sata channel, is the m.2 ngff of the sata protocol. By using this product, the NGFF m.2 of the SATA protocol can be used to replace the old hard disk with the IDE interface.
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