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iMac G3 Hard Drive
- Thread starter Tempest
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I believe you have a 120 or 128GB hard limit (because of the drive controller), but that aside most drives should work I think.
The controller supports drives of any size. The original iMac only supported booting the OS from within the first 8 gigs of a disk. Later slot loading iMac G3s can boot from anything within the first 128 gigs.
In order to use larger drives, you need Intech's SpeedTools ATA Hi-Capacity Driver. With it, the OS can be at the start of the disk and a partition which spans the rest of the disk can be mounted once the OS has booted.
http://www.intechusa.com/ATA6.html
I have a 2TB drive in my tray loading original iMac G3. I used XPostFacto to boot the OS from within the first 8 gigs while the boot OS is actually in the first 128 gigs. Once the Intech driver loads, /Users is mounted with the rest of the 2TB.
Drives larger than 2TB work (the controller sees them just fine), but getting XPostFacto to boot from one didn't work. 2TB is enough for me.
In order to use larger drives, you need Intech's SpeedTools ATA Hi-Capacity Driver. With it, the OS can be at the start of the disk and a partition which spans the rest of the disk can be mounted once the OS has booted.
http://www.intechusa.com/ATA6.html
I have a 2TB drive in my tray loading original iMac G3. I used XPostFacto to boot the OS from within the first 8 gigs while the boot OS is actually in the first 128 gigs. Once the Intech driver loads, /Users is mounted with the rest of the 2TB.
Drives larger than 2TB work (the controller sees them just fine), but getting XPostFacto to boot from one didn't work. 2TB is enough for me.
