[G4] Seagate drive

[Robb McDonald]

I use the ATA Hi-cap and have no problems as long as it is installed on the
startup disk it works.  I have 300gig drive in my 2000 QuickSilver.  It
works with upgrade processors too!  (1.47GHz from 800MHz)

Robb




> 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
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