[MacDV] anyone know why with a g5 dual 1.8 a 200gig hard drive still only shows as a 137gig?

[Mark M. Florida]

That's just the difference between the built-in internal ATA drive 
controller on your old G4 and the ATA-FireWire bridge in the FireWire 
drive case.  Almost all current FireWire cases support the ATA/133 spec 
and can handle even the biggest hard drives available today, where the 
ATA/66 controller in your old G4 could only handle drives up to 137 GB.

You probably just need a better FireWire case. (and maybe not make the 
subject line of the e-mail the first part of the post -- I just now 
realized that)

Or just use a second SATA (Serial ATA) drive in the second drive bay 
(unless that's full already or you need the portability).

Anyway...

- Mark

MA501Guy at aol.com wrote:
> I'm confused, back in the day when I had limited resources, I had to 
> purchase a special card to install in my g4 so that hard drives could 
> read beyond the limits of 137gig.  NOW I'm thinking I may have to go out 
> and purchase another card? strangely enough, I have another firewire 
> drive that DOES read the full capacity of the drive.  Anyone have an answer?
> thanks