Hi all Has anyone got any advice about moving a hard drive from a G4 to a G5. I have 2 internal drives installed in my G4 and use the 2nd for audio and video. I want to move that one over to the G5 when it comes. I installed it into the G4 with no problems - is there anything I need to be aware of? Thanks Dave

Dave Howard wrote: > Has anyone got any advice about moving a hard drive from a G4 to a > G5. I have 2 internal drives installed in my G4 and use the 2nd for > audio and video. I want to move that one over to the G5 when it > comes. I installed it into the G4 with no problems - is there > anything I need to be aware of? AFAIK, you can only use S-ATA drives internally in a G5. kind regards Mark Cahill

> Has anyone got any advice about moving a hard drive from a G4 to a G5. > I have 2 internal drives installed in my G4 and use the 2nd for audio > and video. I want to move that one over to the G5 when it comes. I > installed it into the G4 with no problems - is there anything I need to > be aware of? > > Thanks > > Dave Yes there is . It wont Work. you need to get an external Firewire or USB2.0 Enclosure and put it in there. The G5 uses SATA 150 Internal drives . they are NOT the same as the G4 ATA drives Not only that but G5 does NOT support ATA-SATA adapters. you can ONLY use your existing drive in an external Drive housing. Best regards Max

Dave Howard <david@...> writes: >Has anyone got any advice about moving a hard drive from a G4 to a G5. The G5 uses a different internal drive bus (called serial ATA). It's incompatible with the older ATA bus that the G4's all used. You'll need to mount your old internal drive in some kind of external Firewire enclosure (and perhaps USB2.0?). It's probably less hassle to just buy new Firewire drives (Firewire 800 would be much faster). f-erenc szabo, smarty pants Z+E+R+O+B+E+A+T "NOW POWERED BY THE MIRACLE OF THE TRANSISTOR!"

[quotes trimmed by admin. paulfokus] > Yes there is . > It wont Work. > > you need to get an external Firewire or USB2.0 Enclosure and put it in > there. > > The G5 uses SATA 150 Internal drives . they are NOT the same as the G4 > ATA > drives > > Not only that but G5 does NOT support ATA-SATA adapters. > > you can ONLY use your existing drive in an external Drive housing. > > Best regards > Max > Aha!!!!!! Thanks for that. Looks like I'm selling the G4 with the audio drive still in it, Dave

> > Aha!!!!!! > Thanks for that. > Looks like I'm selling the G4 with the audio drive still in it, > Dave Ah but firewire enclosures are very cheap, I would recommend you get one as they are great for backing up stuff, you just set the old drive to master, pop it in the enc;losure and you have much cheaper firewire drive for backups than if you bought a ready made one Pete www.petethomas.co.uk

On 04/01/2004, at 23:34, Dave Howard wrote: > Has anyone got any advice about moving a hard drive from a G4 to a G5. > I have 2 internal drives installed in my G4 and use the 2nd for audio > and video. I want to move that one over to the G5 when it comes. I > installed it into the G4 with no problems - is there anything I need to > be aware of? I was under the impression that the DVDR drive still utilises an ATA 100 bus and you could connect a drive to the second port if performance is not crucial. In this scenario the drive would be good as a cheap backup drive and for the initial transfer, but probably not suitable for demanding audio/video. Please correct me if this is wrong info. Tom