Subject: Re: [ot] iMac hard drive
From: Jeff Ridder (jridder@gci.net)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 12:43:22 MDT
The hard drive should work fine. There is nothing special about the iMac's
and what drives they can use. You don't have to low-level format the
drives. Try running Drive Setup again and do another install.
Jeff Ridder
jridder@gci.net
> From: Moonglue@141.com (Michael A. Peters)
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 02:31:35 -0700
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: [ot] iMac hard drive
>
> I put a larger hard drive in my Rev B iMac.
>
> Its a 10 gb Western Digital hand me down-
> Booted off the OS 8.5 cd, did low level format, installed Mac OS-
> wouldn't boot.
>
> Rebooted off CD, made sure system folder was blessed, still no boot
> (flashing ??). Zapped pram- still no boot.
>
> My guess is something with this hard drive don't work with iMacs. I'm
> not too upset- I don't trust western digitals (don't trust maxtor
> either, and don't trust quantum- Seagate and IBM I like), but I'd
> like to know from others with my iMac mobo (rev b, c, d) what hard
> drives you've replaced yours with (a part number would be great) as I
> don't want to put the 4 gb back in, and I only want to go back in
> once.
>
> I hat those little metal tabs on the bottom of the can that make the
> drive somewhat difficult to remove...
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> Oh, yes- Linux is the OS for this iMac, so it is *somewhat* on topic.
>
>
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