[sethwrks]

Sooo... hopefully i put this in the right spot!

I have a G4/400 runnin 10.3.9 desktop that really is only a print server/peripheral manager. I just bought a IDE 500G hard drive that i put in an old firewire enclosure.
I also have an SATA external drive, I think its 250G. One of those "MyBooks" (which i cant stand actually, its sooo sloow) that i yanked the HD out of.

Now the fun part...
A) Is there such a thing as a Raid Enclosure that could handle the 2 different kinds of drives?
B) My new 500G doesn't give me all 500G, so its recommended that i buy a controller card ( ATA/100, I believe) to get the full 500G out of it.

What would be my best option here...or is there something else i can do to get
all this stuff together in one pretty package and fully functional?

[Big Mac]

I don't think there's an enclosure that has PATA and SATA together.

[Tomchu]

What's the B) part about? How much of the drive can you actually see?

[sethwrks]

the 500gig drive only gives me 138(ish)gig of space; because the manual says my computer wont "handle" All of the drive space. the manual that came with the drive recommends an "ata/100 controller card" for my computer to use the rest of the drive.

i was tryin to figure out which would be more advantagous, buy the card or getting a raid box for the 2 drives i have.

[Tomchu]

Right, but you put the 500 GB drive in an enclosure, right? The 137 GB limitation comes from the enclosure and it's lack of 48-bit addressing (a part of the "ATA133" spec). Get a newer enclosure that does >137 GB drives, and you'll be fine. :-P

If you've actually connected the hard drive to your computer natively, then you might as well get an ATA133 controller card.

[sethwrks]

Gotcha! TY All for the insight!