On 2008-06-17 12:33:36 -0400, Paul Soderman <kidpocono@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> I'm still enjoying life with my old G4 (I think it is a Sawtooth
> model). I recall from the past that the ATA-33 interface on my machine
> apparently would not permit a drive above 128GB or so to be
> "recognized" to its full capacity, unless partitioned to lower sized
> parcels. With the drop in price of SATA drives, I was considering the
> use of a 750GB drive. I realize, of course, that I would have to pick
> up one of the SATA to IDE connectors, but wanted to figure out first
> of all if the larger drive would be seen in its entirety by the Mac.
> In other words, will the use of the converter solve the problem about
> the limited size of storage being seen by the Mac? I suppose that if
> it will not do so, I would be limited to using such a larger drive in
> an external enclosure, but I'd love to use it internally if it would
> work.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Paul
A SATA to IDE adapter won't help with the 128 GB limit, but there is
software to help
<http://www.SpeedTools.com/ATA6.html>
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