[G4] Re: Hard drive installation problem

[Harry Freeman]

Kenneth ( + )!( + )

 From what I have found out your Mirror Drive Door G4 only supports 
ATA100 which means the maximum amount of disk drive it will support 
without special software is 128 Gb.

If your platform supported 180 Gb drives prior to installation of your 
new drive, then you should have the software somewhere on one of the 
old drives that allows drive larger than 128 Gb.

I don't remember the name of the application, however perhaps someone 
else will know. Once you find this application and put it back into 
your startup path then you should be able to see the full drive.
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On Nov 24, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Kenneth Smith wrote:

> Tom;
>
> I'm afraid I never saw any installation info to indicate a Serial ATA 
> card was necessary to install the new drive.  The new Serial ATA drive 
> works wonderfully so far, it is the other two original drives that are 
> now showing that only part of their 180 GB capacity is available.
>
> Kenneth
>
> On Nov 24, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net wrote:
>
>>> The new drive is not SCSI ( Link to Drive: 
>>> http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST3750640A/ ).
>>> My G4 simply came with the two ATA drives in the rear
>>> tray, then I added the new ATA drive in the front tray.
>>
>> Well, could that be your problem? It's a serial ATA! Do you have an 
>> SATA card installed?
>>
>> Also, I think that "front tray" interface is slower than the "rear 
>> tray". When you buy faster ATA drives, your system performance might 
>> be better if you keep the system files on the faster interface.
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