Tim wrote: > I have not tried it myself but, many people with ata 66 IDE > controllers have used hard drives larger than 120GB. Because the ATA > 66 controller can not address more than 128GB, the drive will only > appear to be 128GB. The extra storage (128GB+ to 180GB) would be > unused. > > If you then added a ATA 100 or 120 controller card, or upgraded to a > computer with ATA 100 or 120 controller the entire 180GB would be > available to use. This is exactly what I read on xlr8yourmac. Sorry, I should have clarified. 128 GB is max for the internal controller and a larger drive will _work_; but this gives no advantage to tha larger drive for the same price.