formatting >128gb hard drive

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sandersonpdx

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I have a secondary 300gb internal hard drive that I cannot format for greater capacity than 128gb. Does anyone know how to get around this limitation?

Running OSX 10.3.9 I've tried partitioning, erasing and zeroing out all sectors, nothing allows me to format for the drive's full capacity.

Any ideas?
 
what mac do you have. only the super late model g4's and newer can address hard drives over 128gig. it sounds like you have an older mac, which means you need to get a pci ide/ata133 hard drive controller. thats what i'm using in my mac, and it is very happy with a 300g drive.
 
Just for reference, this is due to the fact that your computer probably does not support 48-bit LBA (Large Block Addressing) on the internal IDE bus. Like sinclair said, only late, Mirrored-Drive Door G4 machines and later (G5s, etc.) support 48-bit LBA on the internal drive bus.

More information on 48-bit LBA can be found here:

http://www.48bitlba.com/
 
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