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

[John Baltutis]

On 05/10/04, Richard Kriss <kriss at qsl.net> 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.

None. But it'll recognize about 128 GB. I did that a couple of months ago
without any problem.