Thanks to all for your input and help. I changed the jumper on the
drive until I solved the problem. The 120GB drive shows 111.65 GB which
I think is about right. Should I format OS X Extended Journaled or not?
Glenn
On Dec 1, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Ward Oldham wrote:
> Hey John,
>
> It?s even slicker than that! ?There are no jumpers to set as well.
>
> Ward
>
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>
> From: John Robinson <profile at aye.net>
> Reply-To: <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu>
> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:50:30 -0500
> To: <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu>
> Subject: Re: MacGroup: Size of Hard Drive
>
> New G5's
>
> Installing an additional hard drive in the new G5's is the slickest
> thing I have ever seen. ?You have one jumper to set to tell the drive
> it is a slave, and that is it! ??Two wires to plug in, a tab to rotate
> downward to hold the drive in place, close the door and start. ?The
> Operating system opens a dialogue saying that a new drive has been
> installed and how do you want it formatted. ?Done. ?The entire process
> didn't take five min., this was so much easier than what I remember
> from before.
>
> Apple continues to make things simpler, I grin at learning the
> simplicity of the newer computers.
>
> John R.
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2004, at 9:07 AM, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> >
> > It's a long shot, but I just installed a 120GB drive too, and it
> had a
> > series of jumper options (Master, Slave, Other one), and then
> another
> > series of jumper options that did the same, but restricted the size
> to
> > 32GB. I presume for old legacy machines that have problems.
> >
> > Anyway, you might just have the thing set to 32GB. To fix it, it was
> > more than just moving the jumper, I had to repartition in a
> different
> > way (repartitioning the same way led to no change). This was under
> > linux though, so the Mac may not try to be clever about the
> > repartition.
> >
> > Hen
> >
> > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Bill Holt wrote:
> >
> >> Did you use the Apple hard drive setup utility on this?
> >>
> >>> From: Glenn Hoehler <glenn at insightbb.com>
> >>> Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
> >>> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:30:37 -0500
> >>> To: MacGroup <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu>
> >>> Subject: MacGroup: Size of Hard Drive
> >>>
> >>> Hi Folks
> >>>
> >>> I have just added a 120 GB internal Western digital HD to my G4 ?-
> >>> 450 MHz ?384 MB memory. OS X 10.3.6 This is a second hard drive
> that
> >>> is
> >>> installed in this machine. Other drive being 80GB internal. Need
> >>> larger
> >>> drive for some dvd burning. After starting up the computer, the
> disk
> >>> utility shows this new drive as only 31.5 GB. What is my problem?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> Glenn
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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