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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / June 2008Using SATA to IDE converter with G4 Sawtooth; will it recognize the full drive?
I'm still enjoying life with my old G4 (I think it is a Sawtooth model). I recall from the past that the ATA-33 interface on my machine apparently would not permit a drive above 128GB or so to be "recognized" to its full capacity, unless partitioned to lower sized parcels. With the drop in price of SATA drives, I was considering the use of a 750GB drive. I realize, of course, that I would have to pick up one of the SATA to IDE connectors, but wanted to figure out first of all if the larger drive would be seen in its entirety by the Mac. In other words, will the use of the converter solve the problem about the limited size of storage being seen by the Mac? I suppose that if it will not do so, I would be limited to using such a larger drive in an external enclosure, but I'd love to use it internally if it would work. Thanks for any help, Paul > I realize, of course, that I would have to pick up one of the SATA to IDE > connectors, but wanted to figure out first of all if the larger drive would be [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > drive in an external enclosure, but I'd love to use it internally if it would > work. I don't know if you can still buy some, but you should look for an SATA PCI card - this will bypass the 128G limitation (back then a separate IDE PCI card solved the problem with larger IDE drives). The problem may be that most cards are PCIe(xpress) this day, and old fashioned PCI cards are getting rare. > > I realize, of course, that I would have to pick up one of the SATA to IDE > > connectors, but wanted to figure out first of all if the larger drive would [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > card - this will bypass the 128G limitation (back then a separate IDE PCI > card solved the problem with larger IDE drives). Yes, you can. It's what I did to add a SATA drive to my upgraded G4 Digital Audio model. I got this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816122003 And it's been working fine. My G4 doesn't wake from sleep anymore, but I don't know if it's the card as I applied some updates that I hadn't done before when I got the card, most notably the latest 10.4 security update. And I don't know if the updates caused it to not sleep anymore, but I'd think it's a good bet that it's the card. I think... The card is a clone/rebadge of: http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1s2/ And they have a few other models available as PCI cards. Greg B.  SignatureActual e-mail address is gregbuchner and I'm located at gmail.com > I'm still enjoying life with my old G4 (I think it is a Sawtooth > model). I recall from the past that the ATA-33 interface on my machine [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks for any help, > Paul A SATA to IDE adapter won't help with the 128 GB limit, but there is software to help <http://www.SpeedTools.com/ATA6.html> |
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