B&W G-3 Hard Drive Limit??

I put a new 250 gig drive in a B&W G-3. It only sees 128 gig of that. Now I remember reading somewhere that these machines have a 128 limit. Is that right.
If I put an ata PCI card in there would I be able to access all 250gig??
thanks, steve

Don,
Thanx 4 your indulgence. I am with you so far. We are getting closer to the kernel of information that can be memorized and universally applied.
The 128GB limit is a hardware-based drive size limit - that's the biggest drive an ATA/66 controller can 'see'. A drive larger than that will be seen as being only 128GB.
Is there a chart of ATA controller generations? /16; /33; /66; /100; ...
This search points to an article on "How to Differentiate Between [G4] Models, including an ATA/66 bus and an ATA/100 bus.
I have forgotten if I have seen a chart of the generations and limits.
The article "Macintosh: Using 128 GB or Larger ATA Hard Drives" states:
"There are two primary requirements that must be met for higher capacity hard drives to be fully utilized within a computer. 1. The computer must have Mac OS X 10.2 or later. and 2. The computer must provide support for the drives via the BootROM."
"Once formatted [using 10.2 or later], the drive will be recognized under the version of Mac OS 9.2.2 that comes with the Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors) and later products."
"The BootROM of Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors), Xserve, Power Mac G5, and any other model introduced after June 2002 can accommodate these larger drives."
To summarize for larger drives
No computers prior to June 2002 can see more than 128 GB of any drive;
and
Any CPU post June 2002 that is asked to boot into OS 9, must first be formatted with 10.2 or later and the boot volume must be less than 200 GB
Would that be over simplifying?
Ji˜m
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