[G4] Re: Hard drive installation problem

[S. Kennedy]

I think the problem is either with the reformatting or possibly a hardware problem with the ATA 3 bus.  I would move one of the 128 GB drives back to the rear ATA 6 bus because it is faster and the new location might help with the troubleshooting, depending on the results.

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:42:15 -0800, Harry Freeman wrote:
> 
> From what I have found out your Mirror Drive Door G4 only supports 
> ATA100 which means the maximum amount of disk drive it will support 
> without special software is 128 Gb.
>

This is not true and if it were the drives should still show as 128 GB as far as I know. Here is the report of the drives on my MDD.  In your first post you said the drives had so much "available " capacity but you didn't report the "total " capacity.  Was there a difference?

S Kennedy

ATA-6 Bus:

  Vendor ID:	0x106b
  Device ID:	0x0033
  Revision ID:	0x0000

WDC WD3200AAJB-00TYA0:

  Capacity:	298.09 GB
  Model:	WDC WD3200AAJB-00TYA0
  Revision:	00.02C01
  Serial Number:	WD-WCAPZ0641589
  Removable Media:	No
  Detachable Drive:	No
  BSD Name:	disk2
  Protocol:	ATA
  Unit Number:	0
  Socket Type:	Internal
  OS9 Drivers:	Yes

Big_Mac_1:

  Capacity:	297.96 GB
  Available:	39.44 GB
  Writable:	Yes
  File System:	Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:	disk2s10
  Mount Point:	/Volumes/Big_Mac_1

WDC WD3200AAJB-00TYA0:

  Capacity:	298.09 GB
  Model:	WDC WD3200AAJB-00TYA0
  Revision:	00.02C01
  Serial Number:	WD-WCAPZ0885613
  Removable Media:	No
  Detachable Drive:	No
  BSD Name:	disk1
  Protocol:	ATA
  Unit Number:	1
  Socket Type:	Internal
  OS9 Drivers:	Yes

Big_Mac_2_1:

  Capacity:	165.71 GB
  Available:	105.23 GB
  Writable:	Yes
  File System:	Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:	disk1s10
  Mount Point:	/

Big_Mac_2_2:

  Capacity:	132.12 GB
  Available:	84.04 GB
  Writable:	Yes
  File System:	Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:	disk1s12
  Mount Point:	/Volumes/Big_Mac_2_2