[G4] 200GB Drive in G4-450 AGP with ATA-4 Bus

[sr ferenczy]

  you lose 80 gb of usable space. i have yet to hear of any long term 
detrimental effects, which makes sense as the ATA-4 bus can only "see" 
some of the drives, and ignores the rest.


sandor

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On May 10, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Richard Kriss wrote:

> I know this subject was beat to death a few weeks ago. The problem is I
> trashed the postings and question my memory about what I read.
>
> I may be able to get 200GB, 7200 RPM,  8MB cache ATA/100 drive to 
> replace
> the aging 30GB drive that came with this G4-450 AGP machine running 
> 10.3.3
> with an ATA-4 Bus.
>
> As I recall the postings the new (to me) 200GB drive should work okay 
> but
> will only show up as  a 120GB drive.
>
> What iis the downside to installing a 200GB drive on Mac that will only
> recognize 120 GB.
>
> aRKay