[X4U] Older G4 desktop - and large format drives

[revDAVE]

On 11/14/2006 10:04 AM, "Michael Winter" <winter at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 14, 2006, at 11:52 AM, revDAVE wrote:
> 
>> What is the largest size ATA100 drive that is safe to put into an
>> older G4
>> desktop (g4 450 - not yosemite)?
> 
> 120 GB.
> 
>> - I believe it has something to do with the internal controller
>> card and how
>> large of the drive it will allow...
> 
> Its a problem with the BootROM (though I thought it was the
> controller too). I plugged a separate controller card into my G4 and
> hook larger drives up to it -seems to work fine, can even boot from it.
> 
>> Also -  I imagine with the proper external case ( that says it can
>> format
>> 300-400 gigabytes) -  that the same drive could be properly
>> formatted and
>> run on this older computer - is this true?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> For more info, see "Macintosh: Using 128 GB or Larger ATA Hard Drives"
> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178>
> 

Thanks for the quick and helpful response!

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