Mac people: can a G3 use just any old ATA hard disk?

thomsbrain

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I've got a G3 sitting around and I know they used ATA as their internal hard disk setup. I was wondering if they need any special disk, or if any normal ATA disk you'd buy for a PC would work?

Thanks in advance guys!
 

ViRGE

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No, just like everything else, Macs are picky about their IDE disks.:|
 

RGN

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I think Virge is wrong. My boss is a hudge mac guru, and he has had several different hard drive in his personal biege G3.
 

RGN

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In fact I know he is wrong. We still have a few older macs at work. (I work in IS for my Village) I just remembered using a HDD out of a Compaq to fix a Mac whose drive had died. AND I used an IBM 2.5in drive in an old as hell Mac Powerbook.
 

thomsbrain

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The one that is in there is just some Seagate Barracuda (doesn't work now, though). I didn't see anything Mac-specific on the drive... Tried doing a search on Mac hard drives on some price site and I got stuff like IBM Deskstars and stuff...
Anyone know for sure though? I don't have an extra drive to test it with, so I don't want to buy the wrong thing! ;) I can't remember the names of any of those Mac-oriented hardware sites or catalogs... Anyone know any of those?
 

RGN

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If you can wait until tomorrow, I'll ask my boss - he will know for sure. What mac do you have? blue and white or biege?
 

thomsbrain

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It's the blue-and-white G3 that came with the 6GB disk standard. Same one you see all over the place. I got it when a client decided to ditch it instead of paying for a new disk. It was a good excuse for him to get a G4.