[G4] Seagate drive

[Robb McDonald]

You need to have ATA Hi-cap loaded onto your boot drive to see disks larger
than 120. 

http://www.speedtools.com/ATA6.shtml

 I boot off a 120 hard drive and use the secondary 350 for pictures and
music and documents.
I did boot off of the 350 partitioned until the extension didn't load and
changed my whole boot location.  I tried putting Applications on another
disk and some don't work real well.
If I remember correctly its the firmware not the system that determines the
size of the drive it can read.

Robb

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> I replaced a dying secondary drive in my G4 Gig Ethernet Dual 450 w/
> a Seagate 250 GB drive, hoping to install a fresh system of 10.4 on
> one of possibly 3 partitions I was going to make.  However, upon
> reboot after the drive's installation, disk utility recognizes this
> drive as only a 120 GB drive.  I seem to remember some issue maybe
> long ago w/ OS 9 recognizing larger drives, but not OS X.  Could
> someone shed some light as to how I get this mac to see the drive for
> its true self in all its 250 GB glory.
> 
> Currently the start up drive in the computer is using 10.4.9, and it
> booted up great.  Thanks for any help one can provide, and email me
> directly if there is more info about my system that you need.
> 
> Mark
> 
> PS  Is one amount of partitions preferable over another.  I only
> decided 3 because that is what the current start up drive has, using
> one for OS and apps, the second for music and movies, and the final
> for digital photos.   Should I consider more partitions for optimal
> performance?
> 
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