[G4] New hard drive for DP 500 G4

[John Baltutis]

On 01/07/05, "Jonathan I. Nori" <JIN at destinyimage.com> wrote:
>
> I just bought a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 drive for my Gigabit Ethernet DP
>500 G4. Got it in, both OS9 and OSX (10.2 and 10.3) both see it fine.
>
> 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?

I guess you didn't look very hard. This has been out for quite awhile:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178>.
>
> And if yes, could I replace it with an external firewire drive and still
>usit for digital video? (Would an external firewire be fast enough?)

Yep.