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G4 & OS-X Hard Drive Limitations?
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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I was looking for a new hard drive for my G4 and was told by Seagate that G4's cannot access over 120 GB. I'm not sure I believe this but wanted to find out the limitations...if any.
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: College Park, MD
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For machines before the MDD G4, it's technically 137GB, so 120GB is the largest HD you can fully use.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Seattle, WA
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Originally posted by Scotttheking:
For machines before the MDD G4, it's technically 137GB, so 120GB is the largest HD you can fully use.
Unless you buy a separate IDE controller card, then you can overcome the barrier.
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: South Dakota, USA
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I just purchased the Sonnet tempo ATA-133 card from other world computing (macsales.com). I've now got a 160 gb drive in my old b/w.
lw
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Thanks. Sounds like 120 is the way to go without going with a new controller.
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