[FW] Trouble with Firewire on External Enclosure with serial ata

[Michael Winter]

On Jan 4, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Larry Blodgett wrote:

> I have a Mac Quicksilver, I did not realize the IDE bus was limited in 
> size for this new a machine.  I knew that older G4's such as Yikes, 
> Sawtooth and of course B&W had problems.  Does anyone know where there 
> is a list of internal IDE drive size limitations for the various macs?

See the tech article at 
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178>. Not a list per 
se, but it says you need a Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors) or later 
for drives larger than 128 GB. I believe all older Macs with IDE 
support will go up to 127 GB.

-Mike