[G4] Seagate drive

[John Baltutis]

On 04/16/07, Charles Schneider <schneidr at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> It does work.......

Not much information to go on. What works? AFAIK, when you install a HD into a
computer that  doesn't have the BootROM that supports 48-bit LBA when they are
connected via anATA controller, all you'll see is 128 GB or less, unless you
use some software work-around such as described at
<http://www.speedtools.com/ATA6.shtml#Q5>, wherein they even state "Without
this software installed, any extended capacity drive which is connected to the
native ATA bus on older Macintosh models will be limited to only 128 Gigabytes."

> On Apr 14, 2007, at 3:40 PM, I 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.