[G4] RE: Testing HD functionality and G4 size limitations

[John Niven]

It's not the only way. I have 160Gb disk in my G4
Gigabit. Disk Utility only saw 128Gb - so that's what
I used. I have not had any problems with it. These
days Gb are so cheap I don't fret about the 32Gb I'm
missing. I'd rather have a brand new drive I can rely
on, than old small one.

So I believe you should be able to "see" at least
128Gb of the drive before you format it. I was unable
to see any way to "partition the drive into two".

I think I only paid $60 for 128Gb (plus 32Gb wasted
:-)

BTW raid0 is a stripe across two drives. That means
that if one drive fails you lose all your backup. I'm
not sure that's the best choice for a backup!

John


--- "Patrick J. Runcie" <macandlinuxuser at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The only way around the limitation is to purchase a
> 3rd party i/o card and
> install the drive on it.  You should be able to boot
> from it.  I have a
> similar setup on a 2001 Quicksilver, a 250gb SATA
> drive using a SATA i/o
> card.  I also still use the original IDE ports with
> (2) 120gb 7200rpm WD
> drives in RAID 0, for backup.
> 
> Pat
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:g4-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com]
> On Behalf Of David Kline
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:14 PM
> To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Subject: [G4] RE: Testing HD functionality and G4
> size limitations
> 
> Hi: I have a 200 gb HD that was on PC when the power
> supply got fried.  
> Is there way to test it's functionality.  Also I
> know there is size 
> limit on HD's on a Graphite G4 is there a way around
> this. When I try to 
> format it the task bar gets so far then stops.  Any
> advice would be 
> appreciated.  Thanks   DKline
> 
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