[G4] Formatting larger drives

[JAK HARVEY]

 Melinda  let me know how you make out--just
curious--thanx  A.
--- Melinda <mgarrelts at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a 533 Single processor AGP tower.  I recently
> acquired a 160 gig rive. 
> Little did I know that I cannot see the full
> potential of this drive with the
> bus speed that I have.  My question is: I had heard
> that I could put this into
> a firewire case to get the full 160 gigs, minus
> formatting loss, etc.  Is it
> true?  I'd be more than happy to wipe the drive to
> get more than 128 gigs from
> this, I really hate the 30 gig loss.  I don't have
> the $ to get an IDE PCI
> controller card, so that option is out.  Any other
> suggestions?  I am running
> 10.2.6.
> 
> Melinda
> 
> 
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