HD capacity issue

[cavaughan]

A couple of months ago I asked a question about whether any IDE HD will work in a G4 PowerMac. Since the answer was affirmative I bought a 250 G HD from Seagate. Turns out that a single processor G4 will only recognize up to 128 G. According to Seagate there is no way to bypass this without buying a PCI controller. Can anyone confirm that?

Also, if so, then what is a good PCI controller that I should consider buying?

Thanks,

Curtis

 

[bobw]

All G4's prior to the Quicksilver 2002 will only recognize 128GB without adding an ATA/IDE PCI card for large drive support.

Here's one card.

You could also use software for this, SpeedTools.

 

[sinclair_tm]

i say get this one. i got one for my ppc7500 a while back, becasue i wantedide hd and usb too. then i got a g4 tower, i found out that it doesn't have enouph ports on it, so i put the card it it. and with os x, the usb on the card become usb 2.0 ports! if you are going to take up a slot anyway, spend the little extra, and you'll never regret it when you need that extra usb port.