[X-HW] Hard-drive size limit question

[Gene Merritt]

I can't answer your other questions, but I installed a Sonnet Tempo ATA 133
card in my 350 AGP and it successfully recognized an internal Maxtor 160G
drive. I bought it from OWC:

http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=4797&Item=STITAT133

Gene

On 10/31/04 10:10 AM, "albo" <albo at critpath.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have one of those annoying older G4s (400 AGP Graphics) that has the
> limit on the size of hard-drive it'll recognize.  I have a 160 GB drive
> in it, of which I can only use 126 GBs.  If I pulled it out and stuck in
> a firewire enclosure would I have access to all 160 GBs?  If so, I'm
> wondering if this would do anything to the data that's currently on the
> drive?  Will it get "confused", or will it just show me the current
> files with more space available?  There's no OS on there; I use it as my
> video drive for editing.
> Thanks!
> Albo
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