Installing The Drive In A Macintosh - Maxtor ATA Hard Drive Installation Manual

Installing the Drive in a Macintosh

If you are installing a drive larger than 137 GB in any Mac, you
must connect the drive to a Mac-compatible Ultra ATA/133 PCI
card to access the full capacity of the drive. See "Using a Drive
Larger than 137 GB" on page 25 for more information.
If you have a system older than the Power Mac G4, Maxtor
recommends that you attach your drive to a Mac-compatible ATA PCI
card (not included) instead of the on-board ATA controller.
For detailed information on mounting an internal drive in your
Macintosh, go to www.apple.com/support. Once you have mounted
the drive, use this guide to assist you in setting the drive jumper and
attaching the ATA cable.
If you have a Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Door) system, the
jumpers on additional hard drives attached to the built-in ATA ports
must be set to cable select, not to master or slave.
You can format (initialize) and partition the drive using the Apple Drive
Setup Utility (for Mac OS 8.6 or higher) or the Apple Disk Utility (for
Mac OS X). Note that on all beige Power Mac G3 systems (Desktop,
Minitower, All-In-One) and some iMac models (333MHz G3 and
slower), Mac OS X can only be installed on a partition that is within
the first 8 GB of the drive.
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