[G4] Hard drive installation problem

[Kenneth Smith]

Actually Rich, it's 28.52 GB available on one 180 GB drive, and 29.23  
on the other media storage drive.   The new drive is not SCSI ( Link  
to Drive: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST3750640A/ ).  My  
G4 simply came with the two ATA drives in the rear tray, then I added  
the new ATA drive in the front tray.  I don't think the two original  
drives are in a raid array.

Floy

On Nov 23, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Richard Klein wrote:

> 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
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