80GB drives?

[Steffen Barabasch]

>a friend of mine have had some problem with a 80bg drive in his Yikes G4
>, the G4 cant initialise more than 32 GB of it.
>It seem like a lot of people have had this problem and it looks like it's
>a ATA firmware thingy.

This is actually a problem of some PC BIOSes, and reducing the 
capacity of the drive to 32 GB is a workaround for that. The drive 
should have a jumper to switch cripple-to-32GB-mode on and off. 
Switch to off and it should work. I just put my new Barracuda ATA V 
60GB in my Cube after I got it back from repair and it worked 
perfectly.

And make sure your drive is set to Master, not Slave, and not Cable Select.

Steffen
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