[G4] New hard drive for DP 500 G4

[Jim Davis]

Unfortunately, the Mirror Drive Door G4's are the only G4's that will recognize a drive larger than 128 gigs.  You can purchase an ATA controller card very cheaply from any number of sources that will solve your problem AND give you a faster bus speed, though the speed increase will probably be imperceptible.  Try Here:

http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/FT1002.php 

This card is in fact a Serial ATA controller, that will bring you completely up to date and allow you to add the largest and fastest drives available today, Serial ATA drives, with a 150 Megabytes per second data rate.  As the copy indicates, you will also be able to connect your existing 200 gig ATA drive with an adapter, available elsewhere at MacGuru's site.
Best of Luck- Jim.

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On Saturday, January 08, 2005, at 05:57PM, Dale Hoffman <dhoff at margnat.com> wrote:

>>On Jan 7, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Jonathan I. Nori wrote:
>>
>>>My problem is that the drive is a 200gb drive, but the all three 
>>>OSes see it as a 128gb drive. I'm running the most recent firmware 
>>>on the machine (4.2.8f1).
>>>
>>>Neither Apple's support site nor Maxtor's support site were any 
>>>help in telling me what's wrong here. Is the IDE controller in my 
>>>G4 *that bad* that it can't recognize space above 128gb?
>>
>>There's nothing wrong with your controller, it's just built to an 
>>older standard. You can get a new PCI IDE controller from most any 
>>Mac store. It'll just cost you 3-5X what the same card would cost 
>>for a PC.
>
>Which ATA Macs will recognize more than 120GB on the internal controller?
>
>Dale
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