[G4] posting, please?

[Jim Pacyga]

Go into the System Profiler (hopefully you have OS X 10.3).  If you go 
under the Hardware->ATA section on the left hand nav bar, you will get 
the ATA device tree.

Each ATA tree should have the ATA type as the root.

E.g., on my G4/500 I have an ATA-4 and an ATA-3 tree.  On my iBook, 
just ATA-4.

If you have ATA-6 that would support > 137Gb.  For newer G5's you 
should have ATA-7.

I notice my Sonnet SATA card doesn't show up as ATA anything 
though...so caveat...

jim

On 3 May 2004, at 07:36, Alex wrote:

>
> On Monday, May 3, 2004, at 10:05 Canada/Eastern, rich northouse wrote:
>
>> [...] I believe the limit is 120gb with the apple controller. 
>> Installing a second controller can remove that limit. You can also 
>> have a larger drive if you use firewire.  I installed a 160gb drive 
>> internally as a second drive and all I could see was 120gb.[...]
>
> The issue is the same: whether or not the ATA controller is 48-bit LBA 
> capable. The controller is on Apple's logic board, on a PCI card, or 
> in the FireWire enclosure. Controllers of older Macs aren't, but I 
> think all current ones are (not sure, tho').
>
> If the Mac's controller doesn't support 48-bit LBA, the largest hard 
> disk capacity which can be used is 120GiB (or 137GB). Larger hard 
> disks can be installed, but the Mac will not "see" more than that. The 
> solution is to get a new controller, either by installing a new ATA 
> card (SATA preferably), or by using an external enclosure which is 
> 48-bit capable. Which alternative is best depends on specific needs.
>
> f
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