G4 to G5 Hard Disk Swap!

Paul Forbes

Paul Forbes

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Following my "Old to new G4 drive swap" post, here's another, similar question: Can you take the HD with OS 10.2.6 out of a G4 Quicksilver or Mirrored Doors and put it in a G5?
Thanks.
- Paul
 
And G4 has IDE drives (or parallel ATA), and G5 has S-ATA drives... so you need an interface.

Or put your G4 disk at the place of the optical disk.

but you could connect your G4 to the G5 via firewire and just tranfer the whole disk.
 
If you put an IDE Controller card in the G5, you could then put the old hard drive it in.
 
Can't you use those firewire-boxes, where you just need to put a harddisc in (mostly 2.5 inch discs, but I don't know why there shouldn't be any 3.5 as well). You could use your harddisc as some kind of firewire-disc (like ipod)... just a guess
 
Your Mac is already a Firewire box... I never used that feature but as far as I know, I can use a Mac as a firewire disk for another Mac.
 
When IDE controllers are added to a G5, not many cards are supported on the G5s PCI-x bus, has to be a 3.3 volt card. Plus, the aesthetics of that pretty interior would be slopped up with those wide ribbon cables (no slot to route them in from the card compartment to the upper drive compartment) Better to stick with an external solution.
 
You CAN use an IDE HD with G5 with various methods but I think the original question was with OS 10.2.6 :rolleyes:

While a physical connection can be done the system will NEVER (as of now) boot from that HD because it lacks G5's OS X 10.2.7 :p
 
I also thought I had read somewhere that normally, you can't move an ATA hard disk from one ATA controller to another without needing to reformat.

Can't swear to it, but thought I'd heard that.
 
No, this is not right brian. You can move them as long you didn't set up a raid-disc-mode.
I think hulk pointed out the real problem. But Apple should have a solution for this. I mean, not everyone wants to install a completl new ysystem. Wouldn't make sense if that would be impossible.
And Deltamac: yes, you can use your mac as a firewire box (boot with apple T), but it wouldn't be that economical if you have your whole system running when you can actually just plug your disc into a box that just runs on firewire... (if it wouldn't be too expensive as well... ;))
 
IMHO, it's unknown if a G5 system will refuse to boot to 10.2.6 (has anybody tried?) Won't have access to lots of memory (and other system tweaks that G5 needs), but how do you know it won't boot a G5? Then, if a HD can be connected to a G5 system, you should be able to 'tweak' the startup system on that HD, by using the installer CD/DVD, and re-installing the system, either doing a simple upgrade, or install using an archive and install option. It's just a 'small' upgrade, 10.2.6 -> 10.2.7 I think it will work.... :)
 
The original question was,

Can you take the HD with OS 10.2.6 out of a G4 Quicksilver or Mirrored Doors and put it in a G5?


Didn't ask if the G5 would boot from that drive, which it won't.
 
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