It's not the only way. I have 160Gb disk in my G4 Gigabit. Disk Utility only saw 128Gb - so that's what I used. I have not had any problems with it. These days Gb are so cheap I don't fret about the 32Gb I'm missing. I'd rather have a brand new drive I can rely on, than old small one. So I believe you should be able to "see" at least 128Gb of the drive before you format it. I was unable to see any way to "partition the drive into two". I think I only paid $60 for 128Gb (plus 32Gb wasted :-) BTW raid0 is a stripe across two drives. That means that if one drive fails you lose all your backup. I'm not sure that's the best choice for a backup! John --- "Patrick J. Runcie" <macandlinuxuser at gmail.com> wrote: > The only way around the limitation is to purchase a > 3rd party i/o card and > install the drive on it. You should be able to boot > from it. I have a > similar setup on a 2001 Quicksilver, a 250gb SATA > drive using a SATA i/o > card. I also still use the original IDE ports with > (2) 120gb 7200rpm WD > drives in RAID 0, for backup. > > Pat > > -----Original Message----- > From: g4-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > [mailto:g4-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] > On Behalf Of David Kline > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:14 PM > To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > Subject: [G4] RE: Testing HD functionality and G4 > size limitations > > Hi: I have a 200 gb HD that was on PC when the power > supply got fried. > Is there way to test it's functionality. Also I > know there is size > limit on HD's on a Graphite G4 is there a way around > this. When I try to > format it the task bar gets so far then stops. Any > advice would be > appreciated. Thanks DKline > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz