Re: [ot] iMac hard drive


Subject: Re: [ot] iMac hard drive
From: David Gadoury (taveren@bigfoot.com)
Date: Mon Aug 28 2000 - 10:08:43 MDT


I had the exact same problem as you. I never did get the larger hard-drive
to work with the Rev B. Finally I gave up and bought a G4

David

----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Stewart <joerex@pacbell.net>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [ot] iMac hard drive

> on 8/26/00 2:31 AM, Michael A. Peters at Moonglue@141.com wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> > Michael A. Peters-- http://24.5.29.77/Linux_Pages/
> > http://www.omnilinux.com/
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> >
>
> I'm using a 10 gig Western Digital 5400 rpm ata drive in my Beige G3 233
> with Yellow Dog and no problems.
>
> Joe



This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Mon Aug 28 2000 - 09:18:38 MDT