From: Laurent Daudelin (Laurent_Daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Wed Nov 09 2005 - 12:08:53 PST
On 09/11/05 13:28, "James Lee" <kingjames_at_shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was surprised to note that you have a 160G hard drive running in your
> PM G4 DA because, as far as I know, pre-MDDs are unable to read drives
> beyond 128G, i.e. even if you install a 300G drive into a pre-MDD G4,
> it will only recognize the hard drive as a 128G. There is some talk of
> Quicksilvers (2002) [but not 2001s] running Jaguar (not OS 9, 10.1,
> 10.3 or 10.4) being capable of fully utilizing drives larger than 128G.
> The only way a pre-MDD G4 can fully utilize internal hard drives bigger
> than 128G is to have an ATA-133 PCI card installed. 'Externalizing'
> hard drives, i.e. placing them in external enclosures with firewire
> connection, will also allow hard drives exceeding 128G to be fully
> recognized.
>
> As such I hope that you can clarify certain aspects:
>
> 1) Is your 160G hard drive internal or external?
>
> 2) If internal, is your PM G4 DA capable of recognizing the 160G hard
> drive as having the full capacity of 160G, e.g. on the system profiler,
> or only as 128G?
>
> 3) Does your G4 carry a ATA-133 PCI card?
>
> 4) Which version of OS is your G4 running on?
>
> BTW, congratulations for purchasing for your PM G4 DA at such an
> excellent price!
Good catch, James! Indeed, the DA cannot recognize more than 128GB with the
internal hard disk controller, so I have a Tempo ATA-133 PCI card that I
took from the B&W in the G4. I knew I would need it even before buying the
G4 because I did purchase and install a 300GB drive in a friends PowerMac G4
867MHz and the onboard hard disk controller would not recognize more than
128GB.
BTW, I'm running 10.4.3 on the PowerMac G4...
-Laurent.
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