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Re: Installing More Than 128 GB Internal Hard Drive in a G4

Posted: February 28th, 2009, 3:38 pm
by Turboladdade
If you mean format a 500 GB drive attached to the G4's internal bus, no. You must have a third party controller PCI card that supports large drives.

Re: Installing More Than 128 GB Internal Hard Drive in a G4

Posted: March 4th, 2009, 8:16 am
by spectorbassguy
spectorbassguy wrote:So can I take a 500 GB EIDE HD and format it into (4) 125 GB HD's and use it that way without changing the PCI card? I have a Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 running OS10.4 and OS9
Finally got around to trying this and yes it works just fine to partition into 4 seperate drives without changing the PCI card.