[G4] How To Add Big Hard Drive G4 Mirror Door

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Wed May 17 20:31:16 PDT 2006


I have a single partition 250GB ATA in my QuickSilver 2002, and it runs just fine.

Nate
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Brian Parker" <brian at arsismusic.com>
> Yes, but if I understand correctly they have to be partitioned into smaller
> segments.  I have two 250 gigs in my MDD G4 each partitioned into 4.They
> work fine. Brian /Atlanta
> 
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> [mailto:g4-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of Ron Michael
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 8:14 PM
> To: A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers.
> Subject: [G4] How To Add Big Hard Drive G4 Mirror Door
> 
> Thanks guys. I should have given more info. I've got four drives 
> already. Two 160G, a Maxtor, & a Seagate. Also, a Maxtor 120G as my 
> primary (with OS X 10.3.9) and a Hitachi 80G. I want to replace the two 
> smaller ones with 250G drives. I thought I had read, several times in 
> various places, that the mirror door G4 would only "see" 137G of these 
> larger drives unless you added an additional controller card. This was 
> the reason for my question. Now, one more time, just so it will sink 
> in, are you saying my Mac will let me install these big drives with 
> nothing additional added.
> Thanks for your earlier responses.
> Ron in Memphis
> 
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