From: Chuck <xtension4osx-AT-mac.com>
Date: 08 May 2008 12:30:12 UTC   (06:30:12 AM in author's locale)
To: xtensionlist-AT-shed.com

I tried this and was not real happy with it. The RAID scheme failed
often and I finally gave up and just bought a card.

Chuck

On May 8, 2008, at 6:16 AM, Rob Lewis wrote:

> 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
>>
>