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Q: will a apple quadra 840av use a 12gig hard drive

will a apple quadra 840av use a 12gig hard drive

quadra 840av, Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier

Posted on Mar 24, 2012 10:46 AM

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Q: will a apple quadra 840av use a 12gig hard drive

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  • by Texas Mac Man,

    Texas Mac Man Texas Mac Man Mar 24, 2012 3:48 PM in response to Tec Puppy
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    Mar 24, 2012 3:48 PM in response to Tec Puppy

    When new, the max HD size was 1GB. Don't know if this link applies which limits the size (partition) to 8GB.

    http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22193?viewlocale=en_US

     

     Cheers, Tom

  • by Jeff,

    Jeff Jeff Mar 24, 2012 11:28 PM in response to Tec Puppy
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    Mar 24, 2012 11:28 PM in response to Tec Puppy

    At the risk of asking the obvious, have you found a SCSI I/II 50-pin hard drive that's 12 GBs?  Unfortunately, the Quadra can't use an IDE/EIDE hard drive, because it has no PCI slots for a controller card.  What OS version are you running?

  • by Allan Jones,

    Allan Jones Allan Jones Mar 25, 2012 9:13 AM in response to Texas Mac Man
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    Mar 25, 2012 9:13 AM in response to Texas Mac Man

    Tom, That article applies to G3 Macs that can run OSX natively:

     

    • iMac 233 MHz
    • iMac 266 MHz
    • iMac 333 MHz
    • Power Macintosh G3 Desktop
    • Power Macintosh G3 Mini Tower
    • Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One
    • iBook
    • iBook (FireWire)
    • PowerBook G3 Series

     

    Wouldn't aply to a Quadra.

     

    In OS 6 and part of OS7, there was a 2G limit on the size of the boot partition. Apple docs say the partition size increased to "massive" with about 7.5 but I have one old Mac with 7.6 that still required the 2G partition or it would not boot with an unpartitioned 4.3G drive.

     

    Jeff's spot on--we can't be sure until Tec Puppy posts the exact OS version.

  • by rezwits,

    rezwits rezwits Apr 8, 2012 3:22 AM in response to Tec Puppy
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    Apr 8, 2012 3:22 AM in response to Tec Puppy

    The max size drive you could put in a 840av is or at least was a 4 GB drive.  I had a Micropolis AV for one of mine.  It was like $1,000.  They came out with other drives but they were not supported by the scsi on board, you had to get extra NuBus cards...

     

    Good Luck...