[G4] Seagate drive

[Charles Schneider]

One more thing        You need to leave the drive connected to the  
firewire bus



On Apr 17, 2007, at 7:39 AM, Charles Schneider wrote:

> Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box  
> Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box  
> Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box  
> Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box  
> Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box  
> Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box Firewire box
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>
> How many times do I have to say it
>
> If you have never tried it, get off the keyboard and try it!!!!!!
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> Charlie
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> On Apr 16, 2007, at 5:00 PM, John Baltutis wrote:
>
>> On 04/16/07, Charles Schneider <schneidr at umich.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> It does work.......
>>
>> Not much information to go on. What works? AFAIK, when you install  
>> a HD into a
>> computer that  doesn't have the BootROM that supports 48-bit LBA  
>> when they are
>> connected via anATA controller, all you'll see is 128 GB or less,  
>> unless you
>> use some software work-around such as described at
>> <http://www.speedtools.com/ATA6.shtml#Q5>, wherein they even state  
>> "Without
>> this software installed, any extended capacity drive which is  
>> connected to the
>> native ATA bus on older Macintosh models will be limited to only  
>> 128 Gigabytes."
>>
>>> On Apr 14, 2007, at 3:40 PM, I wrote:
>>>> On 04/13/07, 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.
>>>>
>>>> IIRC, that won't work. The computer will only see a max of 128  
>>>> GB. See
>>>> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178> for details.
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