[G4] New hard drive for DP 500 G4

Dale Hoffman dhoff at margnat.com
Sat Jan 8 15:00:11 PST 2005


>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.

Which ATA Macs will recognize more than 120GB on the internal controller?

Dale


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