[DM-MUG] iBook G4 hard drive replacement options

[CW Smith]

A quick clarification, before you purchase a drive:
127GB was the upper limit on machines running 600 MHz or slower.

Machines running 700 MHz or faster support "large drives," so any
currently-available IDE / ATA drive will show its full capacity. Your 1.2GHz
iBook supports "large drives."

In brief:

• 300, 333, 433, 500, 600 MHz iBooks are limited to 127GB or smaller. (These
are all G3s, and include all the colored clamshells and early white models).
• 700, 800, 900 MHz; 1GHz, 1.2GHz, 1.33GHz, 1.42GHz iBooks support "large
drives." (These are all later white models, and include faster G3s and all
G4s).


Hope this is clear. I only brought it up because you hadn't said before (I
don't think) how fast your machine was. AB had already brought up the "large
drives" limitation, but didn't state which machines were limited.

Peace,
CW

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CW Smith
Windows & Macintosh service and repair
Apple Certified Macintosh Technician

Phone: (515) 577-1716
cwsmith7 at gmail.com

"Guitar, bass, percussion, Macintosh"

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