[G4] Internal Hard Drive over 120 GB?
Steve O'Neill
steveo at omsoft.com
Sun May 4 09:32:16 PDT 2003
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.
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