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

[Glen McKnight]

On Monday, May 10, 2004, at 22:59 Europe/London, 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
>

Hi

I'm sure if you format the drive in an external firewire box you will 
be able to use all of it.
I have done this several times, but never fitted a drive internally 
afterwards.

Have Fun

Glen