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Format a 160GB drive for use with a G4/400MHz
Authored by: mithras on Apr 22, '04 11:48:52AM

Have you tried filling the drive all the way up, and then recovering data from it? I wouldn't trust a drive "successfully" formatted under 10.1.5 until fully tested.

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Format a 160GB drive for use with a G4/400MHz
Authored by: silverkeeper on Apr 22, '04 12:16:49PM

The 128GB limit applies to internal drives on this (and other Macs. The built-in IDE/ATA interface handles a max size of 128GB.

For external drives, there is no limit like this.

External FireWire drives running OS X, formatted as Mac OS Extended can easily support 160GB; heck, can support even support 500GB and 1TB volumes. See Apple technotes for full info.

There are other limits, though if other drive formats are used:
- OS 9 is flaky with FAT32 formatted volumes larger than 32GB; so larger disks should be partitioned into several 32GB or less partitions if FAT32 is important to you
- OS X 10.1.x and 10.2.x can only mount FAT32 partitions less than 128GB

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Format a 160GB drive for use with a G4/400MHz
Authored by: Phorne on Apr 23, '04 04:14:15PM

The internal BUS on a G4/400 does not support drives larger than 128 GB. I experienced this issue with Jaguar Server yesterday.

See this Apple Tech note:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178

Your solutions:
PCI ATA Card $99 (I recommend Sonnett Tempo)
Firewire Enclosure $30 and up (I recommend Granite Digital FW400 $99)



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