[X4U] Format a 4TB Seagate drive

[Frank Dutra]

>A friend on visit in the US bought a 4TB Seagate drive 
><http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_4tb_barracuda_xt_first_thoughts_review>
>On his Power Mac (10.5.8) it will only format or show 1.64 TB.  On 
>his Powerbook (10.7) it will show 1.8 TB.
>Does this mean he can't use the full 4TB?
>


Having the same problem with a WD 3tb on a Mystic running Tiger, 
behind a Seritek 1S2 SATAI PCI card, which is likely the stumbling 
block on my system. WD claims it will work, Disk Utility sees the 
full 3 tb,  but no luck. You may want to try throttling down the 
drive speed with a jumper (check with Seagate) or partition the drive 
in GUID, which has boot issues. Neither option worked for me. I'm 
considering formatting with a newer machine which may not work due to 
speed issues with the newer SATA III standards.
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