04-09-2009, 09:01 PM
As Racer X mentions, it is probably a later IDE controller chip on the later production QS models from just before the 2002 models were introduced that January. These reports were supposedly from persons who had theirs straight from Apple, never been repaired or had a logic board exchange. Even LowendMac lists that they have had conflicting reports on persons being able to use large drives in the early QS models. From xlr8yourmac there is this report:
That is also a 2001 QS model. Confusing things is that Apple also sold a 733 MHz Education only model of the QS in 2002 that has the same ROM and logic board as the rest of the 2002 QS models.
P.S. Looks like at least 10.2 was required. Unless some other aspects were met, partitions over 128 GB would not be recognized when booted into OS 9. That was one of the specific changes to the version of OS 9.2 shipped with the last models of the MDD G4, iMac and eMac that could boot into OS 9 compared to the retail version. Apple added support to that version since they supported drives larger than 128 GB.
"Installed this 200GB WD HD into my PowerMac G4/867 (QuickSilver) as the 2nd drive on the IDE bus with the factory 60GB one. Disk Utility 10.2, running under Mac OS X 10.2.3 (build 6G30), formatted it to 186.29GB."
That is also a 2001 QS model. Confusing things is that Apple also sold a 733 MHz Education only model of the QS in 2002 that has the same ROM and logic board as the rest of the 2002 QS models.
P.S. Looks like at least 10.2 was required. Unless some other aspects were met, partitions over 128 GB would not be recognized when booted into OS 9. That was one of the specific changes to the version of OS 9.2 shipped with the last models of the MDD G4, iMac and eMac that could boot into OS 9 compared to the retail version. Apple added support to that version since they supported drives larger than 128 GB.