[G4] (no subject)

[David DelMonte]

An advantage of going to external firewire 800 is that the drive may be 
used by your next computer. However, your computer may not currently 
support FW800 so you'll need a PCI card for that too.

So, either way, you'll need a card - either the ATA6 card to support 
larger drives or a PCI card to support FW800.

David

On Jul 25, 2004, at 10:06 AM, Robar J Philip wrote:

>
> On Jul 24, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Brian Conner wrote:
>
>> You'll probably need to add an ATA controller card (PCI card) that 
>> has ATA6
>> busses. This has been posted here a number of times, and should be in 
>> the
>> archives. The archives _are_ available, aren't they?
>>
>>
>> Brian Conner
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On
>> Behalf Of allen goforth
>> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 10:23 AM
>> To: Power Macintosh G4 List
>> Subject: [G4] (no subject)
>>
>> Help my G4 only sees 128 GB of my 180 GB hard drive.
>
> Actually he needs an ATA 100 or better hard disk controller.
>
> Brian,
>
> The problem is that your Mac has an ATA 66 or older IDE hard disk 
> controller. It only supports HDs up to 128 GB. You have a few options:
>
> 1) Buy a driver from Intech (http://www.speedtools.com/ATA6.shtml, 
> $25). Draw backs: it supports large drives, but it's recommended that 
> the drive be partitioned such that no single partition is larger than 
> 128 MBs.
>
> 2) Buy a new disk controller for $75-$100. Advantage: use any 
> partition size you want. MacSales is a good place to get one: 
> http://www.macsales.com. Note, the controller must be for a Mac. The 
> PC version of the same card that costs 20-40% of the price of the Mac 
> version will not work in your Mac.
>
> 3) Put the drive in a FireWire case. Disadvantage: FireWire 400 has 
> only 66-75% of the performance of a direct IDE connection 
> (http://www.barefeats.com/fire35.html). Note that FireWire 800 matches 
> the performance of a direct IDE connection.
>
> 4) USB 2.0 is an option, but it has only 66% of the performance of 
> FireWire 400.
>
>
> Phil
>
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