[G4] Seagate drive

[Hal]

Provided the IDE/Firewire bridge in the case is  designed to see the  
larger drive. Most new enclosures will. I believe the Oxford 911  
chipset was the last that did not.

-Hal

On Apr 13, 2007, at 1:58 PM, nagable at comcast.net wrote:

> You could put it in a Firewire case, reformat and partition it,  
> then take it out of the case and put it back into the computer.  I  
> "believe" Firewire will read any size drive you want to use.
>
> Nate
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Mark Sexton <marksexton at mac.com>
>
> > I replaced a dying secondary drive in my G4 Gig Ethernet Dual 450 w/
> > a Seagate 250 GB drive, hoping to install a fresh system of 10.4 on
> > one of possibly 3 partitions I was going to make. However, upon
> > reboot after the drive's installation, disk utility recognizes this
> > drive as only a 120 GB drive. I seem to remember some issue maybe
> > long ago w/ OS 9 recognizing larger drives, but not OS X. Could
> > someone shed some light as to how I get this mac to see the drive  
> for
> > its true self in all its 250 GB glory.
> >
> > Currently the start up drive in the computer is using 10.4.9, and it
> > booted up great. Thanks for any help one can provide, and email me
> > directly if there is more info about my system tha t you need.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > PS Is one amount of partitions preferable over another. I only
> > decided 3 because that is what the current start up drive has, using
> > one for OS and apps, the second for music and movies, and the final
> > for digital photos. Should I consider more partitions for optimal
> > performance?
> >