250 GB drive in G4/sawtooth ?

Hello,
I bought a Hitachi/Deskstar with 250GB.
Now I `ve been told, that my G4 will only be able to use 128GB of the available space on it. Is this true ????
And if "yes", can I use all the space if I put to partions on this drive ?
Or is there any other solution ?
Thanks in advance.
hwk

Hi, Helmut!
I'd be happy to fill in for Tom while he's away...
If I install the card, would I have to connect both drives to the PCI card ?
No. The Mac's native drive bus is independent from the drive bus on the controller card. You may use either or both busses, meaning that you could have one or two drives on the native, built-in logic board bus and another one or two drives on each additional cable on an ATA-133 PCI card bus. You'll want to hook the new 250GB drive to the PCI card to format it to full capacity, though.
Please note that the PCI card's controller is also much faster than the one built into your Mac and will take better advantage of the speed of ATA-100 or ATA-133 hard drives, besides enabling the full use of >128GB drives.
And what about the cables ? Are they different from those which are in use now?
The cable for a parallel ATA drive is a standard, 40-pin, 80-wire IDE drive cable. You likely received one with the new drive, which you can use. Your ATA-133 PCI controller card should ship with a compatible cable, too.
You didn't mention which drive technology the new drive uses or the controller card you're considering. If your new Hitachi drive is an Ultra ATA-133 (parallel ATA/PATA) drive, as opposed to a Serial ATA (SATA) drive, you need an ATA-133 PCI controller card. If the drive is instead a SATA drive, you'll need a SATA controller card to hook it to. The two technologies are very different and use different connector cables for both power and data transfer. SATA drives won't physically connect to standard, parallel ATA connections and vice versa. The answers I gave in the preceding paragraphs assume that you purchased an Ultra ATA-133 Hitachi drive and not a SATA Hitachi drive...
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