[G4] Internal Hard Drive over 120 GB?

[sr ferenczy]

no, it is actually the ata spec that does not allow big drives, really 
has nothing to do with the OS, thats the whole reason the majority of 
big drives ship with an ata controller card, because even in many older 
pc' s the 180, 200 gb drives wont be fully addressable.

another thing to look out for is that any PCI controller that comes 
with the drives WILL NOT work in a mac.

sandor

On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 11:03  AM, CJ Scaminaci wrote:

> I've never heard of that...I'm sure a 180 GB would work fine.Maybe 
> they are just saying that because their operating system may not 
> support drives over 120GB. Just an idea..
>
>
> CJ
> On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 11:13 PM, Glenn Peterson wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>>     I have a G4 PowerMac DP 533 and have been told by the Apple 
>> Genius at
>> our local store and Apple Care as well that I can only use a 120 GB 
>> hard
>> drive max for an internal drive.  As I can get a 180 GB drive for the 
>> same
>> price I'd rather use that one.  Has anyone been able to use an 
>> internal HD
>> bigger then 120 GB by using a PCI IDE controller?  I was told by 
>> someone
>> else that by using that it would allow me to install and use the 
>> bigger
>> drive.  Thank you.
>>
>> Glenn
>>
>>
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