[G4] Internal Hard Drive over 120 GB?

Steve O'Neill steveo at omsoft.com
Sun May 4 09:32:16 PDT 2003


Tim wrote:
 > I have not tried it myself but, many people with ata 66 IDE
 > controllers have used hard drives larger than 120GB.  Because the ATA
 > 66 controller can not address more than 128GB, the drive will only
 > appear to be 128GB.  The extra storage (128GB+ to 180GB) would be
 > unused.
 >
 > If you then added a ATA 100 or 120 controller card, or upgraded to a
 > computer with ATA 100 or 120 controller the entire 180GB would be
 > available to use.

This is exactly what I read on xlr8yourmac.  Sorry, I should have 
clarified.  128 GB is max for the internal controller and a larger drive 
  will _work_; but this gives no advantage to tha larger drive for the 
same price.



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