I bought a Western Digital Caviar EIDE HD that is supposed to be 200GB, but when I formatted it with Drive Setup for my Mac G4, it came out to 130. Where did the extra 70GB go???
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Are you using OS X or OS 9? I am also wondering if you formatted HFS or HFS+. I think that on the larger drives, you want to go HFS+ due to sector size. It is designed for the larger hard drives, and security and so forth.
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According to Apple's website, the HFS+ under OS 9 should support a 2 Terabyte solution. Your volume is smaller than that by a long shot.
TO be honest, I have never been a fan of ungodly large partitions like this on a workstation.
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Jump to PostSounds to me like you're trying to put in on an older ATA connection that has a limit of 120GB/137GB. There is a size limitation on old ATA hardware. You may need to purchase a newer ATA/5 or ATA/6 PCI card to see the whole thing. Which version of G4 …
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