[galatea]

Hi,

I just installed a new hitachi hard drive in my MDD fw 800 power mac. It is sharing the ATA 100 enclosure and it is coming up as ~30 gigs. This is now where near the 127 gig limit. So I am not sure what the issue could be any suggestions?

[galatea]

By the way the hard drive is 160 gigs and not 30

[Stratus Wrong]

Um, reformat, and divide into two partitions. I think since it's over 127 gigs it's only 'seeing' 30. So yeah, reformat as maybe, two 80 gig drives. Or something.

[mduell]

The pre-LBA limit would make it appear as 128GiB (137 of the 160GB available), not ~30GB.

Where are you seeing it as ~30GB? Did you format the drive as FAT32 with a Windows box?

[angelmb]

I don't get it, MDD models don't suffer for the lack of large drive support… :-/

[Hi I'm Ben]

Originally Posted by angelmb

I don't get it, MDD models don't suffer for the lack of large drive support… :-/

Enclosures are system independent anyway.


What does System Profiler or Disk Utility say about the drive?

[galatea]

I bought it new at a Mac specific store so the probability of it being formatted FAT32 seems slim. This is what I did. I moved the jumpers to be cable select. attached the drive to the second ATA100 attachment. And then booted up my computer I got an alert window that said a new drive was found I clicked initialize which brought up the disk utility. Here was the second drive at 31.45 gigs. So I am not sure what the problem is either. Tomorrow the store opens back up so I will ask them what the issue is if I/anyone can't figure it out by then. Thanks..

[Hi I'm Ben]

Originally Posted by Hi I'm Ben

Enclosures are system independent anyway.


What does System Profiler or Disk Utility say about the drive?

Replying to myself because it doesn't seem you read what I put.

[galatea]

I'm sorry. I forgot about that in my post.

System Profiler

HDS724040KLAT80:

Capacity: 31.5 GB
Model: HDS724040KLAT80
Revision: KFAOAC6A
Serial Number: KRFA2CRAHX0UED
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ATA
Unit Number: 1
Socket Type: Internal
OS9 Drivers: No
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
Untitled:
Capacity: 31.37 GB
Available: 31.34 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s3
Mount Point: /Volumes/Untitled

Disk Utility

Disk Description : HDS724040KLAT80 Total Capacity : 31.5 GB (33,820,286,976 Bytes)
Connection Bus : ATA Write Status : Read/Write
Connection Type : Internal S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Connection ID : Device 1

[Waragainstsleep]

Double check your jumpers. Some drives can be limited by jumpers to a certain size (I presume this allows you to use different sized drives in a RAID array, can't think why else you'd bother).
If it is running as slave, set it to slave and mount it on the middle of the cable. Since its an MDD, you can fit plenty of drives in there, so If its on its own, run it as master on the end of a cable.

Then erase it again (It is in the correct format now, but most external drives will come formatted for MS-DOS out of the box, internal ones are not formatted - thats why it prompted you to initialise it.).

My MDD is stuffed full of drives (5 HDs and a DVDRW). I think only one is sub 30GB, and all are recognised at full size. Biggest is 300GB. None are set to cable select.

[Hi I'm Ben]

have you set it as your master drive booted from CD and checked it out in Disk Utility from there?

[galatea]

It was the jumpers. There is a jumper setting set for 32 gigs. Thanks for all of your help you guys.