[G4] Seagate drive

[VS]

At 12.40 -0700 07-04-14, John Baltutis wrote:
>On 04/13/07, nagable at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>  You could put it in a Firewire case, reformat and partition it, then take it
>>out of the case
>>  and put it back into the computer.  I "believe" Firewire will read any size
>>drive you want to use.
>
>IIRC, that won't work. The computer will only see a max of 128 GB. See
><http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178> for details.

Someone directed me to this link 
(http://www.speedtools.com/ATA6.shtml#Q5) for a software solution to 
this problem. I haven't tried the software, only read the web page, 
but I would be very interested to learn if any of you know first hand 
if this really is working.

Regarding the header: I put in two Seagate barracuda some years ago 
in my G4 AGP, and have been very  happy with them since then. Very 
quiet, and so far very reliable. Now my goal is buy one for my MacPro 
as well, that drive is way to noisy... (and also I am planning to 
move one of the older drives from the G4 to the MacPro, to the space 
beneath the optical drive. Soon...)


/ Vicki