[G4] Hard drive installation problem

[Richard Klein]

On Nov 23, 2007 8:19 PM, Kenneth Smith <kdorpat at suddenlink.net> wrote:
> Thanks Ronald,
>
> My G4 was a build-to-order purchase with two 180 GB drives so that i
> can do media projects.  After I installed the new 750 GB drive and
> made it my system drive, I used Disk Utility to erase and format the
> old 180 GB system drive, but saw no need to do anything to the other
> one for which I only used to store media. Although I have already
> erased and formatted the old system drive in the manner you suggest,
> it has not changed the 28 GB limitation.  Can you think of anything
> else I did or didn't do that would diminish the available disk space,
> and anything else that I might try to restore the full disk space?

Are you sure that's 28 GB and not 128 GB?  There was a limit on most
Macs until 2002 that only allowed them to use approximately 128 GB on
IDE drives.  Are your drives IDE or SCSI?  Do you know if they were
set up in a RAID array, or just as a bunch of drives?

-- 
Rich