will a apple quadra 840av use a 12gig hard drive
quadra 840av-OTHER, Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier
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 😉
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?
Tom, That article applies to G3 Macs that can run OSX natively:
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.
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...
will a apple quadra 840av use a 12gig hard drive
