Is it true what I've been told that a Mac cannot handle a hard disk over 137GB? Is this true of the G4 towers now shipping? Are there any workarounds? I have a 200GB drive that I'd love to install for video work.
Any advice/information will be greatly appreciated.
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[ 01-03-2003: Message edited by: microtrash ]</p>
Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not super tech-savvy.
Barto
Due to the 1000 - 1024 bytes thing , it format s to 186 GB.
I paid $200 USD for it on black friday.
MSKR
Did you simply hook up the 200GB drive as a slave drive in addition to the normal boot drive? Or, did you need to install a different UttraATA 100 controller card? It sounds like you just inserted the drive and it worked, but I want to be sure I understand correctly.
Thanks to everyone for their responses to this query.
BTW, MicroCenter had a special this week on the Western Digital 200GB drive at $200 after rebates. It is a 7200RPM Ultra ATA/100 drive with an 8MB cache. Box includes an ATA/100 controller, which would enable PC's to get over the 137GB barrier. Funny thing is, they have a little sticker over the Mac symbol on the outside, and the installation manual infers that the drive should not be used on Macs because of the 137 barrier.
Whatever, at $1/GB for a big drive, I think this is a reasonable value.
They also had the Cendyne 4X DVD-RW (really a Pioneer DVR-105, fully supported) for $200 after rebates. Sorry if such comments don't belong in this thread.
Something ridiculous actually.
I forget exactly but it's deveral times bigger tahn any available drive current.
i guess if you had a firewire RAID system with 250GB drives in it you would "see" a 372GB volume.
MSKR