[G4] New hard drive for DP 500 G4

[rich northouse]

I had the same problem with my Quick Silver 733 mhz, OSX.3.2 (at that 
time, now 10.3.7). Installed a 250 gb drive and could only see 128gb.  
If I used it as a firewire drive, I could see the whole drive -- and it 
really wasn't that slow.  But I installed a SONNET ATA 133 controller 
card and now I can see all 250 gb. I also added a couple of more drives 
to the new controller. I believe that the new controller is slightly 
faster than the Apple controller..  I purchased my Sonnet cared on the 
net for $80.

Rich Northouse


On Jan 8, 2005, at 3:09 AM, Ron Steinke wrote:

> On 7 Jan, 2005, at 14:30, 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).
>
> ,,,

> I installed a Sonnet ATA 133 controller card in my G4 Gbit Mac and now 
> have FOUR drives where I could only have two before. It needed a set 
> of custom IDE ribbons from Sonnet, but it works and gives me plenty of 
> room. The old controller connection is sitting idle right now, but I 
> may get some idea of what to use it for later on.
>
> Hope this info gives you some ideas.
>
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