Can the G4 address that much space? Then put the drive in a USB case and use the best USB card you can find. Side step the ATA bottle neck.
Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:27 AM, <peterh...@cruzio.com> wrote: > > >> 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. > -- -- 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.
