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[sr ferenczy]

with FW 800 you could simply buy a 800 to 400 adapter to use on a FW400 
machine


sandor




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On Jul 25, 2004, at 6:31 AM, David DelMonte wrote:

> An advantage of going to external firewire 800 is that the drive may 
> be used by your next computer. However, your computer may not 
> currently support FW800 so you'll need a PCI card for that too.
>
> So, either way, you'll need a card - either the ATA6 card to support 
> larger drives or a PCI card to support FW800.
>
> David
>
> On Jul 25, 2004, at 10:06 AM, Robar J Philip wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jul 24, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Brian Conner wrote:
>>
>>> You'll probably need to add an ATA controller card (PCI card) that 
>>> has ATA6
>>> busses. This has been posted here a number of times, and should be 
>>> in the
>>> archives. The archives _are_ available, aren't they?
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian Conner
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] 
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of allen goforth
>>> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 10:23 AM
>>> To: Power Macintosh G4 List
>>> Subject: [G4] (no subject)
>>>
>>> Help my G4 only sees 128 GB of my 180 GB hard drive.
>>
>> Actually he needs an ATA 100 or better hard disk controller.
>>
>> Brian,
>>
>> The problem is that your Mac has an ATA 66 or older IDE hard disk 
>> controller. It only supports HDs up to 128 GB. You have a few 
>> options:
>>
>> 1) Buy a driver from Intech (http://www.speedtools.com/ATA6.shtml, 
>> $25). Draw backs: it supports large drives, but it's recommended that 
>> the drive be partitioned such that no single partition is larger than 
>> 128 MBs.
>>
>> 2) Buy a new disk controller for $75-$100. Advantage: use any 
>> partition size you want. MacSales is a good place to get one: 
>> http://www.macsales.com. Note, the controller must be for a Mac. The 
>> PC version of the same card that costs 20-40% of the price of the Mac 
>> version will not work in your Mac.
>>
>> 3) Put the drive in a FireWire case. Disadvantage: FireWire 400 has 
>> only 66-75% of the performance of a direct IDE connection 
>> (http://www.barefeats.com/fire35.html). Note that FireWire 800 
>> matches the performance of a direct IDE connection.
>>
>> 4) USB 2.0 is an option, but it has only 66% of the performance of 
>> FireWire 400.
>>
>>
>> Phil