[G4] 200GB Drive in G4-450 AGP with ATA-4 Bus

[Mel Krewall]

Unfortunately, these cards cannot be made to work with Macs, unless 
someone has figured out how to flash their ROMs, similar to video 
cards. I have never heard of someone doing that. Sell the card on eBay 
and spend several times more to buy one that works on the Mac.
Mel

"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are 
still rolling."
  ~ Mark Twain

On May 11, 2004, at 6:23 PM, Crandon David wrote:

> At Fry's electronics many of the large drives are coming with PCI 
> cards in the box. They are labled as Windows only, but perhaps they'll 
> still work in Macs?
>
> David Crandon
>
>
> On May 10, 2004, at 3:49 PM, sr ferenczy wrote:
>
>>  you lose 80 gb of usable space. i have yet to hear of any long term 
>> detrimental effects, which makes sense as the ATA-4 bus can only 
>> "see" some of the drives, and ignores the rest.
>>
>>
>> sandor
>>
>> Rennlist #031031-4586
>>
>>
>>
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>> On May 10, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Richard Kriss wrote:
>>
>>> I know this subject was beat to death a few weeks ago. The problem 
>>> is I
>>> trashed the postings and question my memory about what I read.
>>>
>>> I may be able to get 200GB, 7200 RPM,  8MB cache ATA/100 drive to 
>>> replace
>>> the aging 30GB drive that came with this G4-450 AGP machine running 
>>> 10.3.3
>>> with an ATA-4 Bus.
>>>
>>> As I recall the postings the new (to me) 200GB drive should work 
>>> okay but
>>> will only show up as  a 120GB drive.
>>>
>>> What iis the downside to installing a 200GB drive on Mac that will 
>>> only
>>> recognize 120 GB.
>>>
>>> aRKay
>>
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