Help! 250GB external HD formats only to 127.9GB
I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions on how to solve this problem:
I bought a Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache hard drive last Sunday. I brought it home, installed it in an external drive enclosure, and formatted it. It would only format to 127.9 GB.
I returned it and exchanged it for another of the same model. I brought it home, installed it in an external enclosure, and it, too, only formatted to 127.9 GB.
I then mounted it in another enclosure, made by another manufacturer. Same problem.
Here's my system info:
G4 Quicksilver, twin 1GB processors.
Machine Name: Power Mac G4
Machine Model: PowerMac3,5
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 1 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.3.3f2
System 10.4.7
1.5GB RAM
Internal hard drives:
a 250GB Western Digital,
a 200GB Maxtor,
a 160GB Western Digital,
and a 120GB Western Digital.
I have two of the internals connected to a PCI card.
I usually have two external hard drives attached: a 250GB connected to a USB 2.0 PCI card, and a 60GB Firewire.
To format the new drive, I disconnected all other external drives.
I've had no previous problems with the internal drives or the externals, and all have formatted correctly.
Any suggestions?
- Ken
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