with FW 800 you could simply buy a 800 to 400 adapter to use on a FW400 machine sandor ----------------------------------- On Jul 25, 2004, at 6:31 AM, David DelMonte wrote: > 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