[G4] Hard Drive special (was: Partitioning Software)

[John Baltutis]

On 11/12/05, Steve Goldstein <sng at cox.net> wrote:
>
> And, how would you connect your SATA drive to your system?  The
>connectors are different. The lower level protocols (Serial, the "S" in
>SATA instead of parallel as in present ATA drives) are different.
>
> The source you cite deals with ATA drives (parallel, the flat ribbon
>connectors, where each of the wires is one channel of a parallel array)
>and not with Serial ATA (SATA).  It addresses a completely different
>issue.  Look at the title and opening text, please:
>
> "Macintosh: Using 128 GB or Larger ATA Hard Drives
> Not all Macintosh products can take advantage of the full capacity of
>large (128 GB or greater) hard drives that use 48-bit LBA when they are
>connected via an ATA controller. Other controllers (SCSI or FireWire) are
>not affected."
>
> At 11:46 AM -0800 11/12/05, John Baltutis wrote:
>> >>What adapters are necessary?
>>>
>>> You need a SATA card.  Costs about $50 for a mac.  Also, SATA cable and
>>>power supply connector adaptor (for those drives that do not have two
>>>types of poser supply inputs).
>>
>>Wrong. They'll work; however, you'll only see 128 GB if your computer
>>doesn't support 48-bit LBA. I have two 200 GB SATAs internal on my G4
>>Gigabit and only can see 128 GB. However, the price was right and my former
>>30 GB HDs were becoming flaky. See
>><http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178> for details.

My error. I misunderstood what I read. You need an Ultra ATA HD. For
example, the <http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4008242>. Sorry for the
confusion.