WD 250gig laptop HD

Hello all,
For some reason my old user info was not working so I had to create a new account.
I just picked up one of the new Western Digital 250gig notebook drives that many retailers are selling as compatible with the G3 powerbooks (including even the wallstreet and lombard). When installed into my Pismo (10.4.11/1gig ram/formerly 80gig HD)only 127 gigs show up. I tried putting it into my external case and plugging it in via firewire and it all shows up. I tried partitioning it into two OSX drives and one OS9 drive(120/105/20). It all shows up fine as an external via firewire, but as soon as I install it back into the pismo only the first (125gig) partition shows up. The other OSX partition, as well as the OS9 are gone.
Partitioning the old 80gig into 10 and 9 were no problem whatsoever, so I am assuming 125 (127)is the upper limit the Pismo can recognize.
So all this makes me wonder how every "Mac" company out there can sell these in good faith as "compatible with powerbook G3".
I also wonder if there is a firmware update I am not finding or some 3rd party patch to over come this obstacle. I can use it as an external and just buy another 120gig, but it shure would be nice to have the 250 in the Pismo. I have several newer laptops as well as a couple of desktops but I still use my trusty Pismo 90% of the time. I love this machine and will take it to the grave. I just don't use it for heavy video applications.
I wonder if anybody has tried one of these new drives and made it work? If you have please give me a holler.
Many Thanks,
El Jefe de Biosmell
at your service!
Now if I can just get my hands on one those old 900mghz powerlogix upgades...

Cornelius,
You seem be all over this forum and very helpful to others. I just wanted to say thank you for that.
The WD 250 worked flawlessly with the Speedtools kit posted above. I had already partitioned the drive into 3 sectors using a firewire enclosure and Carboncopy with my G4 desktop. So all I had to do was run the Speedtools installation software, reboot and it was all there (when I posted the question I had installed the drive and only the first showed up). The first 128 is my primary boot, I also have a 20gig OS9 partition for the few older apps. that I just can't (on a rare occasion) live without and the rest as a secondary OSX with all unnecessary software items removed as a dump for music, photos, et al.
As I went from 12gb-30-80 and I was still running out of space I am happy to have the extra room.
When comes to the new computers (like my girlfriend's G4 17")they just leave me cold (literally, my GF never uses it as it makes her hands freeze as well as mine). I will always continue to refurbish/upgrade the old Pismo. So far I have replaced the DVD drive with one that does it all (well, not blue ray...)when the old one died and a 4 hour battery when the original finally got down to 20 minutes. I also just replaced my old "red at startup" LCD screen as well as the AC/soundcard when I first got it years ago to get it running in the first place.
My next point of adventure is I have found an old Powerlogix G3 900mhz that may have a bad cache to play with. I think that will be last item for this machine but my eye is always on ebay for a spare.
So in a nutshell, the larger hardrives work perfectly well.
I will mark this answered.
"I sleep with my Pismo"
El Jefe de Biosmell,
at your service!

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