[G4] Seagate drive

[Hal]

No, this does not work reliably. The IDE controller will only access  
the first 128GB of the drive, so the other partitions may or may not  
work. It's an issue of the location address on the physical drive  
being beyond what the controller can address.

-Hal

On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:11 PM, nagable at comcast.net wrote:

> Jeez!  I didn't mean to create a firestorm.  Once you partition the  
> drive in the Firewire box, it will appear in the G4 in the form of  
> as many drives as you created partitions.  If you have a 500 GB  
> hard drive and want to use it in a G4 that will only read 120 GB at  
> one time, make 5 partitions.  It will appear on the desktop as 5  
> different hard drives.  Right? Or no?
>
> It worked in my Power Mac 8600.
>
> Nate
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Charles Schneider <schneidr at umich.edu>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> How many times do I have to say it
>>>
>>> If you have never tried it, get off the keyboard and try it!!!!!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>> ___