G4 (gigabit ethernet) hard drive question

so i am turning an old g4 450 mhz of mine into a file server with old hard drives of mine laying around. i put in 2 of my 250gb hard drives in where the zip drive and cd drive were giving myself a total of 4 hard dries my only problem is when i start up my computer says it cant read the hard drives and in disc utility it reads them as 128gb drives. is the g4 too old to read drives bigger then 150gb? oh yeah and the drives are all IDE
Message was edited by: dblester

Hi-
The Gigabit Ethernet only supports drives up to 137GB, or 128GB formatted.
You can use larger drives, but the portion beyond the 128GB will not be used.
Alternatives are, either an ATA PCI controller card like that from Acard, or, using a software patch, with special partitioning.
Check Speedtools HiCap Driver.

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