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Hard drive has me stumped.

  • 28-10-2008 10:15pm
    #1
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭


    Evenin' all.

    For the past 8 months I've used a Lacie USB enclosure with a Hitachi 250GB IDE drive as an external drive. Tonight I was playing about with an OSX server machine and decided I'd connect the drive to it with a view to using the server. Anyway turns out the MacG4 that was to host OSX Server (Tiger) only has USB 1 ports. No probs I thought I have a Maxtor One-Touch housing with Firewire and a dud 300GB drive installed. In goes the 250 GB - connect to the Mac and go to Disk Utility. The drive appears as a 128GB. Must be a limit I though so Googled the machines spec. It's a PowerMac G4 733MHz Quicksilver 2002 and is supposed to handle drives > 128GB no problems.

    So I put the bare drive into the machine, still 128GB - Partitioned and formatted it. Decide to give up and put the drive back into the original USB housing. But it still only shows as a 128GB drive !!! I've connected it to a Vista box, a freeNas box and my PowerMac G5 - they all see it as a 128GB.

    Anyone any ideas ? I'm stumped !

    ZEN


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  • #2
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Have you re-formatted/re-partitioned the drive since you did it on the PowerMac G4. The partition table on the disk will be for the 128GB limit if you haven't wiped it since.

    Also, are you 100% sure that your G4 is new enough to avoid the 128GB limit. I thought it was the next line of models on that fixed this. I would have though the firewire controller should be unaffected though.


  • #3
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Yeah I've tried just about everything. I've changed the partition scheme to GUID under Vista and MacOS but no joy !

    My next option is to force a pc bios to see it as a 250GB by manually entering its characteristics as per the makers spec sheet.

    Will try this tonight and let you know.

    Thanks.

    ZEN


  • #4
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Got it sorted. Downloaded Feature Tool from Hitachi and made a bootable DOS cd. The G4 sees the drive correctly now as a 232GB drive.

    Seems that this drive auto caps to the OS/interface max when attached.

    Anyway all sorted now, thanks.

    ZEN


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