[G4] How To Add Big Hard Drive G4 Mirror Door

[Jamie Pruden]

On May 17, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Ron Michael wrote:

> Thanks guys. I should have given more info. I've got four drives  
> already. Two 160G, a Maxtor, & a Seagate. Also, a Maxtor 120G as my  
> primary (with OS X 10.3.9) and a Hitachi 80G. I want to replace the  
> two smaller ones with 250G drives. I thought I had read, several  
> times in various places, that the mirror door G4 would only "see"  
> 137G of these larger drives unless you added an additional  
> controller card. This was the reason for my question. Now, one more  
> time, just so it will sink in, are you saying my Mac will let me  
> install these big drives with nothing additional added.
> Thanks for your earlier responses.
> Ron in Memphis

Hi Ron,

Yes, they will work in your MDD machine.

Not to be *too* facetious here, but you do have two 160s... both of  
them are more than 137... ;)

smiles,
Jamie