[G4] New hard drive for DP 500 G4

[J.R.]

Jon, why not keep the 200gb drive... us it as 128gb, then when you get 
the ATA controller card, you can transfer the data - reformat the drive 
- transfer the data back and you will have your 200gb drive.

This will save you time, effort and hassles!

My 2¢

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!!!

On Jan 9, 2005, at 8:57 AM, Jonathan I. Nori wrote:

> 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^)
>
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