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this is a response i got from seagate support... "The G5 Doesn’t support SATA II, so therefore the Drive must have the SSC turned off, and in some cases, be jumpered down to 1.5 Gb/sec. After this is done, then the drive functions normally."

Does the G5 motherboard support 16MB cache?

OK! cool, this brings me round full circle a little. my original problem was wondering whether the sata2 hard drive would work, connectors and all. Does anyone have a link that can make it sure the seagate sata2 will work absolutely? thanks a lot ElDiabloConCaca and sinclair_tm

Sorry for dragging this out a little. The Maxtor HD seems to be the only one between Western Digital and Seagate with a 16MB cache. ...this leaves me almost wantng the maxtor...

hmm, i've just had a thought, will buying a sata2 hard drive, enable me to enjoy its 300/Mb sec when i upgrade my computer in the future? are there any negative affects to using a sata2 hard drive in the G5, the price difference seems to be surprisingly small. thanks nixgeek

...it seems maxtor have a slight better general review from what i've read. But some feedback from other people would be nice.

thanks, i see. so are these cards expensive? and would you favour Seagate or Maxtor?

Hello. I'm looking for a new hard drive and after waiting for sata2/300, the SEAGATE BARRACUDA 300GB SATA2/300 7200RPM 16MB is my main suspect. Does anyone know if its compatible with G5's? particularly the dual 1.8's or older versions. Thanks

Thanks Lt Major Burns. It should mount in OSX but its corrupt in places, so i can't even get in the back door. I've tried it on an XP pc, but i think its corruption is too great i think. I dont have the music on my computer because its a second hand ipod, dmetzcher. Theres just some really good...

I have an ipod formatted in fat-32 and want to retrieve my music from it before i wipe the hard drive and format it for my mac. i have virtual pc 7 but every time the ipod is in connection to windows 2000 it freezes. It will not mount through the disk utility (usurprisingly) in tiger. Is there...