[G4] Large Hard Drive Install

[S. Kennedy]

Hi,

I am a bit hazy on this but I remember somewhere reading about a jumper setting on the back of some drives that limited the capacity to 32 MB.  It sounds as if this might be your problem.  Maybe someone else on the list can provide more details.  It seemed that this feature was needed in some PC applications.

S. Kennedy



On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:12:29 -0800 (PST), R. Shane Boughton wrote:
> I have a Maxtor ATA/100 internal hard drive, 200 GB.
> 
> My G4 450 only reads it as 32 GB.
> 
> I installed a PCI host adapter card but it still only
> reads as 32 GB.  
> 
> The Maxtor drive box says that I will need an ATA PCI
> card with 48-bit BIOS support.  The card I bought is
> only a 32-bit  (card info here -
> http://www.macsense.com/product/storage/sua-100e_b.html).
>  
> 
> Could that be the problem?
> 
> Is there a fix other than buying another PCI card?
> 
> Thanks,  ShaneB
> 
> 
>  
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