iBook G3 High Capacity 160 GB Hard Drive Upgrade

Yes, my 160 GB IDE drive was installed and recognised successfully, with the full capacity seen by the controller.

This post's purpose is to upload a little chunk of knowledge into the blogosphere, in hopes that it will help someone else one day.

My old White 800 MHz iBook's hard drive failed. Not surprising. I've had the machine for almost seven years now and the IBM 40GB had held out for an extraordinarily long time, filled with weeks on end of bittorrenting.

The real question is "What is the maximum size hard drive that this machine supports?" Various posts on other forums suggest there is a 137 GB or 128 GB limit. But not according to me.

I followed the steps on iFixit and three hours later, was installing the OS on my Samsung HM160HC IDE hard drive. So there you have it. The 160GB drive was recognised and supported on my machine. A screenshot is given here to prove it.























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