BEST OS FOR IBOOK G3/500MHZ/384MB??
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From: David Empson on 8 Jan 2010 23:10 Took a little while to get confirmation for this one... Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > David Empson wrote: > > Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > >> JF Mezei wrote: > >>> I had 10.4 on my 350mhz G3. Can't remember how much RAM it had. You can > >>> find cheap RAM on the internet if you woish to boost it. > >>> > >>> Maximum disk size for that vintage is 128gigs. I bought a 160 gig drive > >>> and it showed up as 128 gig. > >> Eeh? - We're not talking about desktops but about a 500mhz iBook... I > >> have never heard that neither the Pismo 500 nor the iBook 500mhz had the > >> 128gb limit. I replaced the ordinary 60gb disk with a TravelStar 160gb > >> and it showed all the space - partitined 60+100gb for OS 9.2.x and OS X > >> 10.4.11. I still needed (and still does) the OS 9.x bootability and so > >> did he, who I sold it to 2 years ago... > > > > Do you want to try that again? A 500 MHz iBook G3 (mid/late 2001) never > > came with a hard drive larger than 20 GB (mine had 10 GB). The first > > iBook model which came with a 60 GB hard drive was the final iBook G3 > > (900 MHz) in April 2003. > > > > MacTracker doesn't know whether iBook G3s support drives larger than 128 > > GB, but says that iBook G4s (from late 2003) do. > > > > There is no difference between laptop and desktop chipsets or drives in > > terms of ATA protocol versions. Drives larger than 128 GB were supported > > in ATA-6 (or as an extension to ATA-5), which Apple started using in > > some desktop models in 2002, but not in PowerBook G4s until 2003. Not > > enough information on iBook G3s, but I highly doubt they were ahead of > > the PowerBook G4. > > No matter what you can say, I have done this and it worked just fine. If so, you appear to be the only one. (Hm, this sounds oddly familiar.) After doing several Internet searches, I can't find a single report of anyone successfully installing a drive larger than 120 GB in any iBook G3. Just lots of other comments about the limit being 128 GB for all iBook G3s. Same goes for the Pismo and early PowerBook G4s. They can't use internal hard drives larger than 128 GB. Other World Computing's web site doesn't list any hard drive upgrades for iBook G3s, presumably because they can no longer source drives smaller than 128 GB. They list several options for iBook G4s (all 160 GB or larger). Just to be on the safe side, I e-mailed them and they confirmed it: there is no iBook G3 model which can support a drive larger than 128 GB. It will only have access to the first 128 GB. I'm inclined to trust OWC rather more than your recollection. > And for that matter the OP doesn't mention anything about HD size, > wheter it still is the original disk or not. This sub-thread diverged somewhat from the original post due to JF Mezei's comment on a hard drive which you replied to in detail, so the OP's hard drive isn't relevant. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz |