[G4] Help with formatting 250gig drive

[Crandon David]

ATA cards are about $70.



On Jul 11, 2006, at 2:32 PM, SKYGRAM wrote:

> Alaric,
>
> I have the same model of G4. These machines will not recognize hard
> drives beyond 128gb. This is due to limitations in the firmware.
> However there are two ways around this. The first is to buy an added
> ATA card. They are quite expensive for Macs but this way will also
> allow you to add more hard drives as they give you extra controller
> capabilities.
>
> The second method is what I went with and it is a small program called
> ATA Hi-Cap Installer. I went with this approach and it was simple to
> install and it works very well. I installed a 160mb drive and I can
> access 152.67mbs of it.
>
> http://www.speedtools.com/ATA6.shtml
>
> It should cost around 19 or 20 Euros. The Intech web page explains it
> all quite well.
>
> Bill
> Montreal
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