[G4] New hard drive for DP 500 G4

[Jonathan I. Nori]

Philip J Robar wrote:

>
> 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

Thanks for the help everyone!

Fow now I'm giong to exchange my 200gb ATA for a 120gb instead. As soon 
as I can, though, I am going to invest in an SATA board.

Again, thanks.

Jon  8^)