[G4] new hard drive issue

[Philip J Robar]

Some IDE to firewire adaptors found in older firewire cases have the 
same limitations that older IDE chipsets have, they don't have the 48 
bit LBA addressing needed to support drives larger than 128 GB. You 
have three choices, in order of increasing cost:

1) Buy the HD driver software from Intech 
(http://www.speedtools.com/ATA6.html) and install your disk internally 
to your machine. $25
2) Buy a new firewire case. $50+
3) Buy an IDE PCI card and install your disk internally to your 
machine. ~$75 (http://www.macsales.com)

Note that the software solution has limitations that may or may not 
matter to you depending on how you want to use the drive.


Phil