Mac lovers

[Jay]

Got an old eMac with a failed hard drive/OS that I want to get running again for the kids. It has a folder on boot with flashing question mark I think this indicates hard drive or OS failure from what I've read. It had Tiger on before the crash and subsequent replacement with an iMac almost 2 years ago, I've got the Tiger CD around somewhere so should be able to reinstall it.

What I want to know is, did they use PATA or SATA in these?

[Ant1981]

If it wasn't a Mac, wouldn't be having those issues.... 

[Jay]

  shhh now, I want an answer from the Mac geeks so I can pick up the right drive type.

[Mikester]

http://www.mactalk.com.au/11/72607-emac-stuck-between-tiger-leopard-help-pleeease.html

5th reply suggest PATA.

[Jay]

I thought as much, ta. Got an old 80Gb PATA in my PC I could knick. Doesn't sound like an easy task getting it out... 

[Jay]

I can't find the damned installation CD/DVD and none on torrents either  It'll have to be Ubuntu or FreeBSD I guess.

Torrent found, no seeders according to tpb but it's downloading 14% done, hopefully will get the rest too.

[bobotheclown]

have a look on isohunt. they seem to have a couple of OSX 10.4 Tiger's available with seeders.

[Dec]

I've got a OSX Tiger disk somewhere but its for intel only

[Jay]

thanks got the only one on isohunt downloading, the tpb one stopped at 23% the isohunt one has done 28%. It doesn't bother me if it runs Ubuntu or BSD as it's going to my daughter, but she wants the same as her grandad  I doubt the Reading store will have a PPC disc as it's a new store (I think).