[G4] New hard drive for DP 500 G4

[Philip J Robar]

On Jan 7, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Jonathan I. Nori wrote:

> My problem is that the drive is a 200gb drive, but the all three OSes 
> see it as a 128gb drive. I'm running the most recent firmware on the 
> machine (4.2.8f1).
>
> Neither Apple's support site nor Maxtor's support site were any help 
> in telling me what's wrong here. Is the IDE controller in my G4 *that 
> bad* that it can't recognize space above 128gb?

There's nothing wrong with your controller, it's just built to an older 
standard. You can get a new PCI IDE controller from most any Mac store. 
It'll just cost you 3-5X what the same card would cost for a PC.

Phil