300GB USB Drive comes up as 128GB

Hi
I've tired to put in a 300GB internal into my QuickSilver G4, however, the standard card only allows about 128GB. So I thought I'd get around this problem by putting the drive into a 2.0 USB hard drive housing. The housing is capible of holding a 400GB hard drive. I connected the drive (inside the housing) to the computer, however the drive still comes up as 128GB instead of 300GB.
Is this still because of the standard hard drive card, or something else? Please let me know what I can do to get the full use of my hard drive.
Thanks!

Hello! Did you try reformatting the drive to see if it would show its' full size. Also some drives have a capacity limiting jumper. Check your model and see if that's an option. Tom

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