>> It's hooked up to a 133ATA card. I have 120GB boot drive and 300GB data >> drive.
The earliest so-called ATA 133 cards were really ATA 100 cards with a hack which improved their performance to ATA 133 levels. In theory, an ATA 100 card for a Mac is still limited to 131,072 MB. Also in theory, an ATA 133 card for a Mac has the 131,072 MB restriction lifted. In theory. But that was nearly 20 years ago. These days, so-called "legacy" hardware for support of hard drives, more specifically SATA hard drives, has 2 TB as its "breaking point". Go back to a configuration which works, and don't "tickle the tail of the dragon". Remember, an ATA PCI card for a PPC Mac "models" the connected hard drive(s) as SCSI drives. Up to four drives per card ... Bus 0 Master and Slave, Bus 1 Master and Slave. A Mac can accept up to four such ATA cards, but install the fifth such card and the machine will not pass POST ... it will hang (I know this as I tested it on a 9500/9600). There are still some fundamental limitations in a PPC Mac, and hard drive support is one of these. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
