FWIW, I have been using "giant" SATA drives for the last 5-6 years
with my 2002 G4 Mystic, which is an earlier machine than the DA. I
currently have a Seritek 1s2 pci SATA card (2 internal ports) with a
2tb Seagate and a 3tb Western digital mounted above the optical drive
slot. I have also used a 4 port seritek card that I abandoned due to
intermittent sleep issues. I believe these both were SATA I cards,
though I have the newer SATA II and III drives, which are supposed to
be backward compatible, and were in my case.
If I recall, certain drives had issues with the chipsets in the pci
cards, but most were compatible. The only problem I've had was
formatting the WD 3 tb drive, which I did with an OWC Voyager
external firewire/usb/sata box. (Disk utility only saw 2 tb, which I
think is the systems upper limit, thus 2tb and 1 tb partitions were
needed). I'm stuck with a pokey 100 bus, but have still have
experienced a noticeable improvement in performance with these large
capacity Sata drives, much faster than using an external firewire box
like the Voyager.
I got a 2TB sata HD and Pata Sata converter for it to use in my DA
G4 running 10.1.11.
It's hooked up to a 133ATA card. I have 120GB boot drive and 300GB data drive.
The computer just hangs on boot-up. The optical drive does nothing.
Starting with the optical empty
does nothing. The computer just hangs.
It's had startup issues for some time. It order to reboot it you
have to use the button on the front. Same
for shutdown. I just let it run all the time.
Looks like the giant 2TB is useless for this machine and I realize
this computer is 15 years old. Unless somebody
has some ideas.
Thanks
Mark Murphy
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