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Originally Posted by jsconiers  What are the ways to get the 400GB drive supported? For what reason would it hang on install? Is there a way to get os 9 install image without purchasing os 9? |
Nothing free here - Intech has a software solution for the ATA controller, costs you about $25.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22899
Or, there's 3 or 4 different companies that make IDE PCI drive controller cards. A good site to find several is
www.macsales.com.
Here's their page -
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-...e-Controllers/
Your hard drive may not be formatted yet, so go to the menus when you get ready to install OS X, and choose the Disk Utility from the Utilities menu (if you are booted to the 10.4 installer) select your hard drive, and choose the erase tab, and erase (actually initialize, or format) the drive. If you do nothing else, you will have a 128GB partition. That's all you will get. If you later get one of the other solutions, the hard drive will have to be formatted again to get full use of the hard drive. You will not have a choice about the re-formatting (unless you don't want to use the rest of your hard drive), and you will have to transfer everything to another storage device, or lose everything.
If you don't have any local sources - friends, other Mac users that you know - you can find copies of OS 9 on eBay, or other web sources. Just be sure to get an install, and not an updater, which will not help unless you can already boot to OS 9.
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