128GB HDD Limit? (Old G4 Tower)

Hello everyone, I just purchased a SeaGate HDD that is 500GB IDE and for some reason my old G4 (first gen I think) will only show that it's 128GB. I popped the HDD into my PC and sure enough it was 500GB, so i formatted it to NTFS for lulz and put it back in my g4 tower and this time I booted the Mac OS X Server 10.5 disk and checked it with disk utility and it said Capable: 128 used: 500GB .
I looked on the forum and checked google and it seems the hardware can only support up to a 128GB HDD? I can't imagine this being true... Even for such a old box I would think it wouldn't have a limit on how big the HDD can be.
So is there any work around? Or anything I can do to install a bigger HDD in this old G4 Tower? Or is it doomed to its 50GB HDD forever?

48-bit LBA was added to the QuickSilver 2002. You stumbled into a G4 MDD forum, where 'large drive' support is native.
Perhaps you recall an earlier era when drives of 100MB were over $1000 and considered bleeding edge?
My Blue 'Smurf came with 6GB drive. So 120GB was not available and 20x storage capacity, and 45GB drives for under $200??? well, my 9GB 10K Atlas cost me $209 at the time.
You could use it on a PCI PATA controller that will add support for "large drive." or FireWire. Better yet would probably be FW800 PCI and case and use SATA for internal drives.
http://www.macsales.com/firewire
Also, OS 9 can't boot from partitions that are larger than 195GB! probably because no one could test or envision OS 9 on such drives.

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