[G4] Hard Drive Size

[Ronnie Day]

It should read the "big" HD up to its capacity limit. IIRC, the limit
is 128 gig, at least on a B&W without a third party card. However, I
don't remember if a third party card will work in the Beige G3, but
you can get a cheap PCI/USB card. OWC (Macsales.com) sells the PCI
card (around $15?) and a great USB adapter for $30 that'll connect any
type bare drive to another computer so you can transfer the data. Sort
of a hard drive Swiss Army knife.

I'd call them, tell them what you want to do and ask them the easiest
way to do it.

HTH,
Ron

>
> Its finally about time to put my ole 233 mhz beige G3
> gently out to pasture.  It has served well as an honored
> time warrior that still runs Claris Emailer among other
> extreme oldies.
>
> I'd like to insert a 'too large' hard drive (80-120 GB)
> into the Beige G3 if possible in order to duplicate its
> info onto the drive.
>
> The G3 apparently only allows up to 80 GB maximum size.
>
> Then I'd like to transfer the new HD over to either
> my G4 tower or a B&W G3 on a one way 'bon voyage' trip.
>
> The G4 tower apparently WILL read a 128 GB drive.
> The B&W G3, I don't know for sure.
>
> Will <the Beige or the B&W> read that drive without
> difficulty and simply be unable to see the last part
> of the drive, or will it simply be unable to read
> the drive at all?
>
> Thanks
> Don