In article <C47DCB83.833B6%noreply@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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MartinC <noreply@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Paul Soderman wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I don't know if you can still buy some, but you should look for an SATA
PCI
> card - this will bypass the 128G limitation (back then a separate IDE
PCI
> card solved the problem with larger IDE drives).
Yes, you can. It's what I did to add a SATA drive to my upgraded G4
Digital Audio model. I got this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816122003
And it's been working fine. My G4 doesn't wake from sleep anymore, but I
don't know if it's the card as I applied some updates that I hadn't done
before when I got the card, most notably the latest 10.4 security
update. And I don't know if the updates caused it to not sleep anymore,
but I'd think it's a good bet that it's the card. I think...
The card is a clone/rebadge of:
http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1s2/
And they have a few other models available as PCI cards.
Greg B.
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Actual e-mail address is gregbuchner and I'm located at gmail.com
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