400GB hard drive only coming up as 128 GB drive

I am trying to install Mac X 10.4 on a Mac G4. I bought a 400 GB seagate drive but every time I erase and try to format the drive in the internal bay it only comes up as a 128 gb drive. Can anyone help Thanks

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You can also get a Sonnet PCI ATA card if you want the drive to be internal. The only reason I'd have it as internal is if you already have a backup that is external, and need external internal scratch storage space, or an emergency boot system for when the other internal hard drive fails. Backups though should generally go on external drives as my FAQ explains:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html

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I have a friend that has a G4. She bought a Seagate 400GB hard drive that she wants to use. I warned her that it could be done, but the speed would be affected, so I bought a Acard 6280M ATA/133 PCI card. After installation, the G4 boots with the grey Apple, then after a while, it changes into the international "no" symbol. I tried resetting the cable, verified master/slave drives..nothing seems to work. The drives boot fine in the regular port on the logic board (of course with the second drive showing less than 400GB). I also tried booting off the card with just the master drive, but still the "no" symbol comes up.
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Wish I had known before sending the card back.
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Time Machine backup on external hard drive

Dear Mac users
Some time ago I recieved a 2TB Western Digital My Passport hard drive. I split the hard drive (1.6TB/0.4TB) with Disc Utilities and called the 0.4TB part "TM-BACKUP". I then set Time Machine to use this external hard drive as backup hard drive. But yesterday I checked how much space I had available in my internal hard drive, I then discovered that Time Machine had also saved a backup on my internal hard drive. On one of the pictures I have added you can see the 111.81GB backup on my internal hard drive named "Sik.Kopier". The other is a picture of Time Machine where you can see that the chosen hard drive is my external 400GB hard drive.
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Sincirely AsgerVL

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I just purchased two Seagate 400gb external firewire hard drives (model#ST3400801CB-RK), one for storing my analog video footage and allowing me to have several imovie projects available at one time, and the second hard drive for backing up my 80gb mac mini and the first 400gb hard drive. I haven't opened the boxes yet, so my question is: do you have a recommendation as to the best hard drives out there for my uses? I don't want to purchase the wrong thing. If you think Seagate is good, I'll keep what I bought and start my movie projects this weekend. Thank you for your time.

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Sure, it would be very interesting to run a test by importing a few tapes a few times with journaling on and off and then compare the amount of dropped frames. ...but there are so many other variables (the HD's fragmentation and self calibration, network activity, etc) that I haven't bothered to do this...
Journaling does need a minor overhead but AFAIK this is neglible with modern HDs with big caches and iMovie work which needs 3.6 MB/s (in practice this must be doubled to at least 7 MB/s to take care of occasional hiccups in the system).
I prefer the slight added robustness at the expense of minimal speed decrease that journaling offers.
But in the end I think this does not matter much either way. I'd hope some magazine runs a carefully planned test about this.

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I just ordered a macbook air today and need to know if the 128gb SSD is enough space. I presently have a macbook pro and am using only 30gb hard drive space so, the apple rep said 128 is enough as I do not load much pictures or gaming etc. Also is i5 ok.

Id choose the I5 yes, depends on what your usage is going to be,
....your question about "128 gig being enough" begs the question for IDEALIZED USE of your macbook AIr
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Still have 82gig available....... the entire point is that someone shouldnt consider the Air a "storage device" for tons of pics, music, vids, etc.
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400g hard drive, only 128gig showing

Help. i know not FCP related, but need this to work so i can use FCP on project this weekend!!
just got a new 400gig hard drive. I can see it in my PC ok, brought it over to the mac but i can only see 128 gig of it after i formated. i am running Mac osX 10.3.9, i understand that was a simular prob with os9 ?
(hard drive is a hitachi deskstar ata/ide put unto external casing whihc ive used for a 250gig drive.)

Jsut because a hard drive has a Physical capacity for 400GB, it does not mean that it is universally acceptable to all kinds of computers. there are several other factors -
The Interface
The Format
What your computer's interface supports (capicity)
You obviously have 3.5" ATA drive of some flavor, inserted in your PC, and in some kind of external case (an older one, most likely for your mac mini, since it can't take a 3.5" inside), so you know enough about about the interfaces.
PC's use a couple different formats for disks, and Macs use a couple formats for disks. And like old floppy disks, it maters which is which. Assuming this was a PC formatted 400GB drive you put in an external case, your mac saw it (as unformatted) and promted you to fromat it for the machine the first time it saw it. It then appeared like a normal drive - but with a 128GB capacity.
The problem here is the capacity of the interface - the external enclosure you are using for the drive. If you had an old 40GB external or similar laying around, and put the 400GB drive in it to replace the old 40GB, the old case can only see 128GB of the disk, a limitation of it's old ATA contoller. New extrnal cases would recognize it's full capacity (after you reformatted it again) and the drive would be completely useful.
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In disk utility I had a look. I cannot verify or set permission (greyed out). The data coming back from info. How can I change this??
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Type : Disk
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Ejectable : Yes
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Partition Number : 0
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Hello:
My wife and I have decided to purchase a new Intel Imac as soon as Leopard is released. We took this decision because she hasn't used the Mac since OS7 and I have never used one. We want to be able to gain experience with the system before we have to perform an upgrade of the OS.
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OSX supports NTFS unofficially, in a read only mode. This means you can only read data off NTFS formatted disks, not write it back to them.
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The Intel SSD may be above your budget (it is about twice the price for 160 Gbytes than the built to order with 128 Gbytes). If that is the case, just get the built to order and you can add an external drive for very little money if an when you need it.
I bought a 15" i7 and used it for a couple of days before I swapped the drives. In comparison, the stock drive made the computer feel sluggish. With the SSD, it is snappy, fast and responsive.
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Ten days ago, I had trouble backing up my iMac using Time Machine. After turning it off and restarting my external hard drive, it backed up successfully.
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fzgy wrote:
"Mac OS X can't repair the disk. You can still open or copy files on the disk, but you can't save changes to files on the disk. Back up the disk and reformat it as soon as you can."
It's possible a heavy-duty 3rd-party disk repair app can fix it, but they're expensive (DiskWarrior is about $100), and there's no guarantee it can do it.
Am prompted to reformat but I don't have a good understanding of what this means and how to do it.
That will erase it. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #5.
It sounds very much like the disk is beginning to fail, although it's possible there's a bad port, cable, connection or power supply (if it has its own).
I'd suggest getting a new one, and using it for your Time Machine backups; once you have a good backup there, reformat the old one (and select Security Options to write zeros to the whole drive -- if that fails, you know the drive is toast). Use it for secondary backups, per FAQ #27. If it has failed, get a second new one for secondary backups.

Recently my keyboard on my macbook pro died. i backed up the machine to my Seagate 500GB hard drive, successfully, and sent the notebook in for repairs. Now that the macbook is repaired, i can read from the seagate, but not write to it. It says read only.

Recently my Macbook Pro's keyboard failed. Using my wireless keyboard, i managed to backup everything to my 500gb Seagate external hard drive. I sent the machine in, had the keyboard repaired, and now the machine is back, and i am loading my content back onto the macbook. My problem is that the drive is now read only, and i have searched for all the obvious fixes. The lock on the permissions secion of the info block on the drive. (not present). I have even tried disk utility, but all the options are greyed out.
I am a graphic designer, and so i use my external drive extensively to move artwork around, so it is important that i can make it writable. It worked perfectly on this very same machine, two weeks ago, and nothing has changed on the drive, so i can only assume it is a software issue on the operating system.
I have read through all the forums, etc, and can find nothing that works. I am loath to change anything on the drive, as it was working perfectly on this system before the system went in for its repair.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Captain Zub-

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400GB hard drive only coming up as 128 GB drive

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