[G4] New hard drive question

[Harry Freeman]

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On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:40 AM, rich northouse wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> When did things change in regard to big drives.  When I installed my 
> 180 gig about a year ago, the system would only see about 120 gig. I 
> needed to use a PCI card to see the full 180 gig.  I haven't tried to 
> format a drive recently, but I believe you guys that it now works. But 
> it didn't before.  So when did things change and what was the cause.  
> Could it have been OSX.3 ??
>
> rich
>
>
> On Jun 21, 2005, at 10:52 PM, Nathan Gable wrote:
>
>>> All MDD's see big drives on the 100 bus. Both should be on the 100 
>>> bus save more than two.
>>>
>>> k
>>>
>>> On Jun 21, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Al Poulin wrote:
>>>
>>>> In either case, a question is whether your MDD will see all 200 GB 
>>>> without a new PCI controller card.
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> I just put a Hitachi 250GB in the zip drive slot of my 800MHz 
>> QuickSilver 2002.  The formatting picked up 232.89 GB, a single 
>> partition.  If you do go inside like that, the jumpers on the drives 
>> need to be set to cable select; at least they did for mine.  So far 
>> it's only holding images of my other two drives.
>>
>> Nate
>> --

Things changed with the introduction of the 64 bit processors.


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