[G4] big hard drives-9.1?

[Philip J Robar]

On Jan 20, 2007, at 3:23 PM, bill ritchey wrote:

> g4 400 & maybe a dual g4 later- needs to boot into 9  thanks

The only way you're going to get 500+ GiB under OS 9.1 booted natively  
is with an ATA or SATA PCI card that both works with OS 9.1 and has  
large drive support or to use Firewire (USB would be too slow). The  
feature you're looking for is known as LBA 48, which is part of the  
ATA-6 spec.

OWC (http://www.macsales.com) has both ATA and SATA cards which do  
what you want.

All of the Power Macs which support large drives via their built-in  
interfaces require OS 9.2.2. The QuickSilver 2002 PowerMac is the  
oldest of those.

Phil
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