[G4] G4 533Mhz Tower and a 200 GB hard drive - not !

[Brian Conner]

The IDE bus in the 533-G4 is your limiting factor. When you install a drive
larger than 137GB, you will only see 128GB. What you need to do is install
an ATA100 or ATA133 PCI card. This card had two additional IDE busses that
will accept up to four IDE devices.

Here's is one explanation you can read:
http://www.mrbarrett.com/mt/archives/2002_06_11.html


Brian Conner


-----Original Message-----
From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On
Behalf Of Tony Charlton
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 6:09 PM
To: Power Macintosh G4 List
Subject: [G4] G4 533Mhz Tower and a 200 GB hard drive - not !


Ok . . 

I decided not to add the second optical drive but to add a 200GB hard into
the zip bay instead . . . and so the trouble started !

After I formatted what did I get for my money ?  . . .128GB !

Great

Does anybody have any idea why this should happen and what I can do to get
the full 200GB or am I limited to 128GB !!!

Please help ! !

Thanks
Tony. 

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