[G4] Hard Drive special (was: Partitioning Software)

[Steve Goldstein]

Um...

And, how would you connect your SATA drive to your system?  The connectors are different. The lower level protocols (Serial, the "S" in SATA instead of parallel as in present ATA drives) are different. 

The source you cite deals with ATA drives (parallel, the flat ribbon connectors, where each of the wires is one channel of a parallel array) and not with Serial ATA (SATA).  It addresses a completely different issue.  Look at the title and opening text, please:

"Macintosh: Using 128 GB or Larger ATA Hard Drives
Not all Macintosh products can take advantage of the full capacity of large (128 GB or greater) hard drives that use 48-bit LBA when they are connected via an ATA controller. Other controllers (SCSI or FireWire) are not affected."

--Steve




At 11:46 AM -0800 11/12/05, John Baltutis wrote:
> >>What adapters are necessary?
>>
>> You need a SATA card.  Costs about $50 for a mac.  Also, SATA cable and
>>power supply connector adaptor (for those drives that do not have two
>>types of poser supply inputs).
>
>Wrong. They'll work; however, you'll only see 128 GB if your computer
>doesn't support 48-bit LBA. I have two 200 GB SATAs internal on my G4
>Gigabit and only can see 128 GB. However, the price was right and my former
>30 GB HDs were becoming flaky. See
><http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178> for details.