BTW: According to the Apple manual the original drive comes set to Master, but mine was not. Check the jumper settings on your factory drive before you boot up.

Also, the original HD might cause speed bottlenecks to your new GXP on the ATA 'chain.' I say check Xlr8yourmac.com for these kinda info, and email mike (owner of the site), he's p…

I just put an IBM 30GB drive into my G4/400 and had no problems. It fit fine in the bracket on top of the Quantum. [Hey Apple, could you cut the ATA cables any shorter?!] The origi…

A little side-comment from the peanut gallery: The IBM hard disk you selected is an impeccable choice. They are extremely fast, large, but a bit expensive. I've had experience wi…

On a side note... I recall reading from xlr8yourmac that the Master runs a bit faster than slave. I say if you want to get the most advantage out of your GXP, make it master and ma…

I'm doing some tinkering with the keyboard usb ports, and was wondering if there's a way to get them to 'forget' the current they're limited to? I'm basicaly trying to make a 'k…

From what I understand about USB, the computer activly searches for USB devices, and when it hits one, the USB device returns a little data which tells the computer what driver to …

Sounds like you'd have to hack the drivers. Yech.

This may or may not be the best thread for this question, so my early apologies. I've got an iMac revB, & im looking for more HD space. (4gb doesn't cut it). What's the most…

Popular topic, I haven't actually done it myself but this what I've heard: 40 Gig Drive: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Forum5/HTML/000764.html there's a list somewhere of co…

gee... that description on installing the internal looks like a challenge. maybe one of these days.... how fast does your external run, disectamac? Is it good enough to run prog…

One important thing to remember is the sloooooow transfer speed of USB - only 1.5 MB/sec maximum, assuming you have no other constant signals through that port. In contrast, the i…

My external is a Lacie which I've had for quite some time now. I'm sure there are better ones than the one I have. At any rate, I store most of my MP3 and video on it. As far as…

I'd seriously just get an internal harddrive and switch them. They are LOADS cheaper (a 40 gig hard drive is only 300 bucks), a CRAPLOAD faster (someone said 33megs a second I th…

Ya, I'm leaning toward the internal option. I was searching through the CompUSA product inventory and found a nice Maxtor 40 gig 7200 rpm for $200!!! There's no way an external c…

Would a FireWire hard drive be good for an iMac DV SE? Would it actually transfer at 50 megabytes/sec?

yes, a fan-less iMac would have a serious problem with a 7200 rpm drive. those things run significantly hotter than the 5400 rpm ones however, as long as you buy a 5400 rpm ide/at…

As long as you're replacing your internal hard drive, you could consider buying an external USB case for your factory hard drive. That would also make it a lot easier to transfer y…

internal is good... The USB thing imght be a neat idea. I'd try that. Also... I have a 7200 RPM drive in my 1 gen iMac, adn nothing has gotten hotter (CD Rom is…

Has anyone seen any external enclosures with a firewire hookup? I want to expand my SE hard drive space, but the firewire drives out there are still too pricey.

ClubMac makes it's own external hard drives at an extremely low price. 20 Gig External Firewire search for others here: ClubMac Home Page --------------------------------------…

has anyone seen any other installation instructions (for a 1st gen iMac) other than the one at "theimac.com"? The ones there are a bit complicated and the pictures are somewhat sm…

I think there may be instuctions on www.imac2day.com dunno though...

I upgraded to a Maxtor 13.6GB and the iMac (bondi A) won't boot from it. I find out later that Maxtor made some drives that won't boot Macs. They format fine and allow file transf…

I just upgraded my iMac DV to a 30 Gb Maxtor, 7200 rpm. I'm going to monitor the temp over the next few days to see if there's any difference. To transfer the files I just took t…