[X4U] 160 gb drive read as 127.87 gb

Steve Martin steve at planomartins.com
Fri Oct 28 21:37:17 PDT 2005


So what is probably going on is that the Firewire enclosure has an  
older chipset that doesn't recognize drives larger than 128 GB.  You  
probably need to get a new Firewire drive enclosure.

On Oct 28, 2005, at 11:32 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> At 9:05 PM -0700 10/28/05, ..lj wrote:
>
>> If your G4 is older than the "mirror door" version(867), it will  
>> not recognize more than about 128 GB on a new drive. However I  
>> didn't think that would affect a firewire drive. No first hand  
>> experience.
>>
>
> It doesn't effect Firewire drives.  I used a 200GB firewire drive  
> on my G4/450 AGP without any problems.
>
>         Zane
>
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