[G4] Large Hard Drive Install

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Make sure you formatted it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).  You may need to make two partitions--I think 120GB is max on the older G4s.  But reformat and make sure the format is Mac OS Extended (try one partition first).

Nate
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "R. Shane Boughton" <rshaneboughton at yahoo.com>
> I have a Maxtor ATA/100 internal hard drive, 200 GB.
> 
> My G4 450 only reads it as 32 GB.
> 
> I installed a PCI host adapter card but it still only
> reads as 32 GB.  
> 
> The Maxtor drive box says that I will need an ATA PCI
> card with 48-bit BIOS support.  The card I bought is
> only a 32-bit  (card info here -
> http://www.macsense.com/product/storage/sua-100e_b.html).
>  
> 
> Could that be the problem?
> 
> Is there a fix other than buying another PCI card?
> 
> Thanks,  ShaneB
> 
> 
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