Is there a hard drive size limit for G5 imacs?

I recently added a 1.5 TB firewire drive to my father's iMac. Since then the system has been hanging frequently and I have not been able to restart the machine remotely using either Timbuktu or ssh sudo reboot.
Is this drive too big for leopard to handle on the G5?
Message was edited by: Chester Wood

Is there a hard drive size limit for G5 imacs?
No.

Similar Messages

  • Is there a hard drive size limit  that can be hooked to the airport extreme

    I am trying to connect a 2TB HDD to my Airport Extreme but it doesn't see it. It is a Mac formatted drive I have been using as my backup drive but want to put it on the Airport Extreme to share some other stuff that's on it. When I hook in a 500GB drive it works just fine.
    There are no windows machines (god forbid) that will share it, all Mac.
    Thanks!

    Is there a hard drive size limit for G5 imacs?
    No.

  • USB Hard Drive Size Limit

    Is there a TB size limit for external HDDs connected via USB on a mac?
    I have both a 3 TB and 4TB external 3.5" drive that will not mount via USB. They are currently connecting via a hdd dock (with USB 3, FW, and ESATA ports) to a 2009 Mac Pro running latest version of Yosemite. They will however mount via esata, the internal sata drive bay and FireWire. Also, it seems that smaller sized HDDs ~1TB and under will mount (I haven't tried 2TB since I don't have one available, but I suspect it will work).
    Note that this is not exclusive to the 2009 Mac Pro as I have tried it on the newest Mac Pro Cylinder and got the same results via USB 3. I found this was an issue in Mavericks too and tried Snow Leopard on an old iMac with the same result.
    When I inspect the disk in disk utility via USB disk utility reads that the HDD is MBR when I know that it is GPT (GUID) and all the other connections read this correctly.
    Any insight into this?
    Thanks.

    One of the drives is (connected via USB3...  )
    Drives are drives, and SATA. Know what you meant.
    Some people have taken their internal drives, put in a USB device, formats properly, then return to use internally where the full capacity is seen and not an issue.
    Why is DU treating internal drives on the SATA controller used an issue? really strange - and bad. But then Apple Pro RAID controller also limited drives to 2.2TB and would format as 800GB otherwise if they were larger.
    Still points to the drive  case.
    And in using 3rd party PCIe USB3 controller, that could play a role as well.

  • Is there a Hard Drive Size Limitation when using Tiger?

    Im going to be setting up a backup server that users can copy their working files to, so Im going to be installing 2 300gb hard drives on a G4 running tiger. I just want to be sure that there is not some hard drive size limitation with tiger.
    Please let me know!!!

    Welcome to Apple Discussions!
    The size limitation is operating system independent. It has to do with the ATA bus on older machines which is discussed in more detail on this article:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178
    If you have a G4 tower that is older than the resolving of that limitation, you can add a PCI ATA card which supports larger hard drives, many of which are discussed in more detail on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
    I'm not sure about sharing external hard drives, though the size limitation does not apply to new external hard drives purchased since that limitation was resolved with newer ATA buses.

  • K7T266 Pro2-RU Hard drive size limit

    What is the maximum size hard drive that the BIOS can handle for the K7T266 Pro2-RU board? The official web site and BIOS updates are sort of vague... I know that the regular limit is 137 GB, and Windows XP Service Pack 1 has some kind of workaround. Will there be problems with installing big hard drives on this board? I'm not planning on using the RAID controller...
    Thanks  

    well that works for drives over 32gb and under 137gb on boards whos bios cannot see drives over 32 gb
    but ive never seen it proved to work with drives over 137 gb in a board cannot cope thith drives that big
    bios indicates the raid has 48 bit lba support so usde your big drives on that
    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=292&sid=

  • Replacement G4 hard drive size limit?

    Hello! First I want to thank all of you for sharing your troubles and fixes. I've had very little trouble with my iBook in the past few years. A refreshing change from all the monkey-motion associated with my other pc clones!
    But my hard drive has died. My question is... are there any limits on the size of hard drive? Will the iBook itself recognize a considerably larger drive than it was born with? It had a 30 GB drive and the drives now come 5 times larger or more. If there are limits, what are they?
    I've read in other posts about G3 machines not recognizing larger than 8B physical formats. However, a partition of 8GB will be recognized with the remaining physical space in one or more other partitions. Is the same true of the G4?
    Feel free to add any other advice or suggestions. Thanks!

    khsmward, Welcome to the discussion area!
    There isn't really any size limit to the hard drive that you can install.

  • Internal hard drive size limit on Mac Mini?

    am thinking about getting an intel mac mini as a music (iTunes) server.
    I see that Apple offers them with internal drives of either 80 or 120 GB.
    Since I intend to use it with a large library, I wanted to ask if there is a maximum capacity for the internal drive. Assuming that I can replace the internal drive (I would be surprised if I couldn't), I was hoping to be able to use a 500 GB, 750 GB or even a 1 TB hard drive inside.
    I was under the impression that since the Mini uses SATA drives, I can put one in of any size. Tell me if I'm wrong.
    also: I would imagine that replacing the hard drive on a mini is more involved than doing it on a standard desktop, but I'm sure that there are helpful instructions (with copious illustrations) as to how to do it.
    (I can always go with external drives - although, unfortunately, I believe my choices are limited to FW and USB; it would be nice if the Mini could use eSATA and PCI slots.)
    thanks for your input.
    w

    I can't imagine how one would hack a mini in such a fashion - but I don't know anything about their architecture.
    I have done something like that on a linux pc machine - it's fairly simple to attach an external eSATA drive to an internal SATA port, you just need a special cable to do that & power it externally. But I wouldn't imagine that the mac mini has SATA ports that are both accessible and available...
    where might I find a step-by-step guide to replacing the internal drive?
    thanks
    W

  • G4 hard drive size limit

    Hi folks – I'm a long time PC user surrounded by Mac users who tell me they are so much better. So I’ve decided to try.
    I’ve acquired a PowerMac G4 Model M8570
    It needed a replacement hard drive. I have been fortunate to be able to clone its sister machine running OS X 10.4.7 using Carbon Copy Cloner. They both had 60 G drives. The one I put in is 320 G. The OS saw the drive as 120 G..
    Is there a way to force it to see the full size of the drive?

    Hi-
    OK- so you installed the 320gb drive into a Quicksilver (I believe) that doesn't support large drives, and did the formatting, correct? This would explain the 128gb size.
    If you need to go the clone route for the OS in the MDD, clone the sister to a smaller drive, install into the MDD (along with the 320gb drive). Boot to the smaller drive, reformat the 320gb drive, and clone again.
    Two drives (can support up to 4 in the MDD) should both be jumpered to Cable Select.
    For future ID purposes, use these articles:
    Power Mac G4: How to Differentiate Between Models
    Power Mac G4: How to Differentiate Between Models, Part 2

  • A20M hard drive size limit

    I'm having difficulty upgrading the hard drive in my A20M 2628 from 80GB to 160GB.  It has the latest BIOS, but I can't find any reference to Logic Block Addressing, or to hard drive capacity.  Is a 160GB hard drive more than the A20M can handle? Can anyone out there tell me the biggest drive the A20M can use?

    Welcome to the forum!
    I believe that BIOS limit is at 137GB. You can get around this by partitioning the drive on another machine, or with Linux.
    Hope this helps.
    Cheers,
    George
    In daily use: R60F, R500F, T61, T410
    Collecting dust: T60
    Enjoying retirement: A31p, T42p,
    Non-ThinkPads: Panasonic CF-31 & CF-52, HP 8760W
    Starting Thursday, 08/14/2014 I'll be away from the forums until further notice. Please do NOT send private messages since I won't be able to read them. Thank you.

  • K9A2 Platinum BIOS, are there any hard drive size limitations ?

    I have a K9A2 Platinum system with version 1.10 of the AMI BIOS. Recently trying to re-initialize a Linux grub /boot partition which is near the end of my 2 TB hard drive I received the message:
    "Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS"
    I see nothing in the AMI BIOS limiting the number of cylinders on any of my hard disks. Is there some setting in the BIOS I should be changing to fix this problem or is this just a legacy grub limitation ?

    Quote from: Svet on 29-May-14, 21:44:37
    Up to 2TB should be fine,
    about the error, check here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1327989
    Thanks but the link provided no help.

  • Is there a per attribute size limit for ldapmodify?

    Hi,
    I'm trying to replace an attribute using ldapmodify (directory 4.12) that is just over 2Mb. When I try I get the message "can't contact LDAP server" - the server is running. If I drop the size of the attribute below 2Mb I can successfully import.

    Just looked at the docs and assume that it's maxbersize.

  • Maximum hard drive size for 350 MHz slot loading?

    Hello,
    What is the maximum hard drive size for a 350 MHz slot loading imac?
    I am aware of a 128 GB limit on imacs. Does the 128 GB hard drive limit apply to all imac CRTs or just the earlier models?
    Here are the specs of my imac:
    Blueberry 350 MHz
    Slot loading CD-ROM drive,
    6 GB hard drive
    Is the maximum hard drive size limit of 127GB apply to this particular model?
    Thanks

    Yes, the last CRT iMac was in 2001. The first machines with built-in greater than 127 GB support were released in June 2002, as this article explains:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178
    So all CRT iMacs have that limiation.
    http://support.apple.com/specs/imac/
    The 8 GB limit is explained here:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106235

  • Quicksilver scsi drive size limit ?

    Hello all.
    The original 37gig SCSI drive on my Quicksilver (NOT mirror door) is beginning to sing a sad song so I am looking into replacement.
    I know there is a 128gig size limit for ATA drives in this model but is there any size limit for internal SCSI ????
    I have already added a 120gig ATA with my original 80gig ATA so I think I'm pretty well maxed out (heat and power wise) on internal ATA drives.
    Due to the cost of SCSI drives I'm thinking what I may do is buy an external LARGE firewire dive, transfer the contents of my internal SCSI drive to that firewire drive and then just use the SCSI drive as a dedicated "video capture" drive until it finally dies.
    So, besides the original question about SCSI drive size limits does anyone have anythoughts on going external firewire vs. additional internal drives?
    Thanks.
    Gary
    933mhz PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.2.x)

    Hello! If speed is an issue get a sata Raptor drive (most 36 or 80 gigs). The access time is as fast as a 10,000 rpm scsi drive. Just add a sata card to use the sata drive. Tom

  • Maximum hard drive size for upgrading a dv6375ea?

    Hello to all,
      My hard drive began to make noises and since it is past warranty, I will upgrade it. When I had bought the laptop I had chatted with a HP personnel on these support pages, and he/she had told me that the maximum size that the bios allowed was 120 gb. That is the original hard drive size!
      Has anyone upgraded their hard drive or does anybody know of a technical value that I should try?
    Thanks for your time,

    You can install as large a drive as you can find as long as it is SATA and 2.5" wide and 9.5 mm thick. SATA drives have no BIOS size limit. However, some have occasionally reported issues with 500 gig drives and 7200 rpm drives. I can therefore tell you with 100% certainty you can install a 320 gig 5400 rpm drive in your laptop. My favorite website for laptop hard drives is newegg.com. Don't buy from HP parts; it will cost way too much. You should be able to find the drive I mention for around $80 and laptop drives are also sold at Best Buy, Frys and similar stores.

  • How do I capture tape-based media to my external hard drive?  There is only one firewire 800 port on the back of my I mac.  The manual says to import tape footage directly into fcpx, but then I lose my external hard drive.   thanks for your help.

    In FCP X How do I capture tape-based media (hdv clips)- which I want to import-to my external hard drive?  There is only one firewire 800 port on the back of my I mac.  The FCPX manual says to import tape footage directly into final cut, which works, but then I lose  my external hard drive    Do I  have to import it into an event, then copy it over to an external hard drive?  On Larry Jordan's tutorial, he has 3 external hard drives that show up on his monitor WHILE he imports his tape based media.  How is that done?  I can only get either the camera to appear OR my external hard drive.   thanks for your help.

    Thanks for your response, but that doesn't solve the problem.  Yes, the LaCie hard drive has 2 firewire ports-
    I have always done what you suggest (works fine in FCP7), but in FCPX when I do that the camcorder icon
    does not appear.  It only shows up when I DIRECTLY import the footage via firewire.  ????

Maybe you are looking for