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December 27th, 2004, 09:38 AM
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| How many harddrives can I put? I have a G4 Quicksilver 867MHz och ett TurboMAX/ATA pci kort 9004 inside. How many harddrives can I put then? Now I have 2 harddrives +1 DVD burner +1 ZIP drive in the computer and would like to put one more harddrive.
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#2
December 27th, 2004, 04:13 PM
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| Should be no problem adding another drive. You have two drive support on the on board IDE controller, and if your TurboMax is an IDE/ATA card, you have added controller (s).
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December 27th, 2004, 04:56 PM
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| Thanks bobw but I think that my TurboMax card is pure SCSI as I bought it a long time ago so I could connect old SCSI devices as my old scanners etc. From what I understand from your answer the Mac itself only supports 2 harddrives which I allready have Or?
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December 27th, 2004, 06:46 PM
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| You have two IDE buses. Each will support two devices. You have 2 hard drives on one; and a burner and a Zip drive on the other. You can add a PCI IDE adapter card, which could support one or two more pairs, if there is a physical place to put them - could be on the floor of the enclosure if there is room. Another option would be to replace the Zip drive with a third hard drive (not an ideal solution as you lose some speed due to your burner limiting that bus to 33 MHz)
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#5
December 27th, 2004, 06:52 PM
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| Ok, do you have any good suggestion for a PCI IDE card? Will any of the PC standard do? Some one also told me that the max speed driver I can put in the Quicksilver is 128Gb for each drive???
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#6
December 28th, 2004, 01:08 AM
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| You can only use a 137GB (unformatted) or less drive with the stock ATA66 controller in your G4. If you throw in an ATA100, ATA133, or SATA controller you can use a larger drive. SATA card (I'd buy this one, $58) http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_It...em=ACDAEC6290M Available Cards for G4s http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgr...=Show+Upgrades
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December 28th, 2004, 03:55 PM
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| For the moment I will skip the PCI card as they are so expencive and buy 2 new Samsung 120Gb, 7200rpm drives. But shall I buy IDE or SATA disks?
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