From: Rob Lewis <rob-AT-whidbey.com>
Date: 08 May 2008 12:16:50 UTC   (06:16:50 AM in author's locale)
To: xtensionlist-AT-shed.com

Actually, you don't.
See: <http://www.softlow.com/mac-os-x/drivers/storage/commercial/
speedtools-ata-hi-cap-support-driver.html>.

I've been using it for a couple of years on a 300GB drive in my
QuickSilver and never had a problem. (The drive is connected to the
same ATA/IDE cable as the optical drive, which is only a 33MHz bus,
but it works fine as an auxiliary drive.)

There are some rules about partitioning the drive. IIRC, the first
(bootable) partition can be 120GB max, but after that, you can have
partition(s) of any size.

On May 7, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Chuck wrote:

> You have to get a PCI card to use larger drives. I have a matched
> 250GB RAID that works great.
>
> Chuck
>
> On May 7, 2008, at 9:09 PM, Bruce Cameron wrote:
>
>> How are you getting the G4 to recognize the 500 GB drive? Or are
>> you partitioning into smaller logical drives. My G4 won't
>> recognize anything larger than 120GB without partitioning (even
>> though the CPU has been upgraded to a 1 GHz processor card.
>>
>> TX
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>> On 7-May-08, at 10:00 PM, nz_no_junk wrote:
>>
>>> Ditto the recommendation on Seagate drives. I have begun swapping
>>> out my Western Digital drives in favor of the larger capacity
>>> (500Gb) Seagate drives inside my G4 Sawtooth.
>> Snip
>