[G4] Seagate drive

[nagable at comcast.net]

Jeez!  I didn't mean to create a firestorm.  Once you partition the drive in the Firewire box, it will appear in the G4 in the form of as many drives as you created partitions.  If you have a 500 GB hard drive and want to use it in a G4 that will only read 120 GB at one time, make 5 partitions.  It will appear on the desktop as 5 different hard drives.  Right? Or no?  

It worked in my Power Mac 8600.

Nate

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Charles Schneider <schneidr at umich.edu>
> One more thing        You need to leave the drive connected to the  
> firewire bus
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 17, 2007, at 7:39 AM, Charles Schneider wrote:
> 
> > Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box  
> > Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box  
> > Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box  
> > Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box  
> > Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box  
> > Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box
> >
> >
> > How many times do I have to say it
> >
> > If you have never tried it, get off the keyboard and try it!!!!!!
> >
> >
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> > On Apr 16, 2007, at 5:00 PM, John Baltutis wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
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