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From: Adrian Tuddenham on 11 May 2010 12:19
Are all G4s capable of seeing the full address range of a large modern
HD or are some of the early ones limited to the first 120 GB like G3s
are?

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From: Jim on 11 May 2010 12:27
On 2010-05-11, Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Are all G4s capable of seeing the full address range of a large modern
> HD or are some of the early ones limited to the first 120 GB like G3s
> are?
>

My MDD didn't appear to have any drive limits, or at least not that I
noticed. I had at least a 320GB in there, might even have been 400GB.

Not sure about earlier G4's though - I think they might have had the 120GB
limit.

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From: Woody on 11 May 2010 12:32
Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Are all G4s capable of seeing the full address range of a large modern
> HD or are some of the early ones limited to the first 120 GB like G3s
> are?

The first yikes and sawtooth boards were 120gb restricted
<lowendmac.com/macdan/05/1024.html>
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From: J. J. Lodder on 11 May 2010 13:53
Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Are all G4s capable of seeing the full address range of a large modern
> HD or are some of the early ones limited to the first 120 GB like G3s
> are?

Everything until the second generation Quicksilvers
was limited to 128 GB,

Jan
From: David Empson on 11 May 2010 17:16
J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:

> Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Are all G4s capable of seeing the full address range of a large modern
> > HD or are some of the early ones limited to the first 120 GB like G3s
> > are?
>
> Everything until the second generation Quicksilvers
> was limited to 128 GB,

For PowerMac G4s, that's all models sold in 2001 or earlier.

I have a QuickSilver 2002 manufactured in January 2002 and it is working
fine with a 320 GB parallel ATA hard drive, with no special tricks.

With earlier PowerMac G4s you can of course install a PCI card which can
be used to access larger ATA or SATA drives.

Early models with any G4 or G3 processor can also use larger disks via a
third party driver (which requires partitioning).

The exact cutoff for other models depends on the date the computer was
introduced. Apple's official position is that all desktop Macs
introduced from mid 2002 support drives larger than 128 GB, but user
feedback says this also applies to the iMac G4 introduced in January
2002, and the first eMac in April 2002.

MacTracker says all iBook G4 models support large drives (first such
model was in October 2003).

The situation is less clear for the PowerBook G4. MacTracker doesn't
mention whether big drives are supported in PowerBook G4 models, but it
would be reasonable to assume that it wouldn't have happened any earlier
than 2002 and almost certainly happened by the models introduced in
September 2003.

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