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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Hard Drive upgrade - 2009/08/25 16:29 will this work in a quicksilver 733 AD

Hitachi 7K1000.B Hard Drive - 1TB, 7200RPM, 16MB, SATA-300, OEMHitachi 7K1000.B Hard Drive - 1TB, 7200RPM, 16MB, SATA-300, OEM
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Hard Drive upgrade - 2009/08/25 16:59 Not unless you go to the expense of purchasing a SATA PCI Controller card and then not SATA 11 which the drive is and the machine will then only recognise 128GB in all probability.

You need an IDE 3.5" drive, now also known as PATA for Parallel ATA and not Serial ATA.
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Hard Drive upgrade - 2009/08/25 20:24 If the drive is attached to a PCI card, doesn't it get around the 128Gb limit ?
I was always under the impression that PCI acts as a separate bus so it gets around the onboard IDE limit on the Logicboard - no matter whether it is a SATA or PATA PCI card.

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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Hard Drive upgrade - 2009/08/27 17:26 I'm currently running a DP 533 DA with an ACard dual channel SATA card and a 160 GB SATA drive, and it sees the whole thing. It's also noticeably quicker than the original onboard PATA system.

That being said, there is also an Open Firmware hack that will allow the onboard PATA controller to see large drives; see:

http://nanchatte.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/128gb-large-hdd-lba48-support-on-the-g4-cube-with-leopard/

I used this for quite a while on the above machine with nary a hiccup.
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Hard Drive upgrade - 2009/08/29 07:24 stewieno1 wrote:
If the drive is attached to a PCI card, doesn't it get around the 128Gb limit ?
I was always under the impression that PCI acts as a separate bus so it gets around the onboard IDE limit on the Logicboard - no matter whether it is a SATA or PATA PCI card.

Stewie

Some of the older ATA PCI cards did not have large drive support because of the controller on the card so it doesn't always solve that issue.

The PCI controller cards do completely bypass the onboard controllers but may still suffer the same limitations depending on which controller chipset is used. I know very little about the PCI SATA cards but I thought they all had large drive support. I'm sure Harry knows more about it than I do.

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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:Hard Drive upgrade - 2009/08/31 20:17 Just in my experience I have used three Sonnet PCI ATA 133 cards , and an Acard in various Macs of mine and friends over the years with no problems recognising larger than 128Gb hard drives. Mind you these were all 133X speed cards from memory and not the older 33 or 66X so maybe that had something to do with it.
All SATA cards should be capable of large drive support.

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