[G4] Hard drive installation problem

[Kenneth Smith]

Harry,

I had to withdraw my initial response to you on this.  It was  
withheld by the monitor because I included a jpg of the System  
Profiler info and made it exceed the acceptable size limit.  So, I  
hope this is the hard drive info you requested:

The Drives are as follows:

ATA Bus
         Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105
         Phillips CDD5301
ATA Bus
         IBM-IC35L180AVV207-1
         IBM-IC35L180AVV207-1
ATA Bus
         (Note: The System Profiler does not represent the newly  
installed drive in the same way as the above info is presented;  
According to the web site where I purchased it, it is a "750GB  
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM 16MB W/ Perpendicular  
Drive Technology")

	Capacity               698.64GB
         Model                   ST3750640A

Kenneth/Floy




On Nov 23, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Harry Freeman wrote:

> Kenneth ( + )!( + )
>
> Would you look in the System Profile * under ATA and SCSI and tell  
> us the make and model of drives that are being reported?
> ============================================
>
> On Nov 23, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Kenneth Smith 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?
>>
>> Floy
>>
>> On Nov 23, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Ronald Steinke wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 23, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Kenneth Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would appreciate any information that will help me restore two  
>>>> 180 GB ATA drives to full capacity from the 28 GB "availabiile"  
>>>> that is now reflected for each drive.  I installed a new  750 GB  
>>>> hard drive in the front tray of my 1.42 GH mirrored door G4 and  
>>>> made it my system drive.  Now the two 180 GB drives in the rear  
>>>> tray (one of which was previously the system drive), show in  
>>>> "Get Info" that only 28 GB are available in each of the drives.   
>>>> Both 180 GB drives came in the computer when it was new.
>>>
>>> First, no G4 listed in Mactracker ever came with a 180Gb drive  
>>> installed from the factory.
>>>
>>> Second, no G4 was shipped with more than one drive installed  
>>> unless it was a "BUILD TO ORDER" purchase.
>>>
>>> Third, use Disk Utility to erase and format the drives. That  
>>> will  restore the available capacity of the drive to the original  
>>> "new" capacity. Of course, you WILL lose any data that is on the  
>>> drive when you do this.
>>>
>>> Fourth, you should make sure that your drives do not have a  
>>> bridge installed on the drive size limiter pins. That will limit  
>>> the space available for use (according to the PC tech here in the  
>>> office). I have never seen a size limiter bridge on a drive in a  
>>> Mac chassis, so I can't verify the truth of his statement.
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