PowerMac Disk Drive Capacity Limit?
Okay, I need some enlightenment.
After doing some serious searching, I found that the newest PowerMacs include 48bit on the ATA controller card and with OS X 10.2, can support drives larger then 132 GB.
So my question is: What's the theoretical drive capacity limit on the newest PowerMacs.
Or more generally, how large of a hard disk can ATA/100 48 bit support?
Thanks
theFly
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After doing some serious searching, I found that the newest PowerMacs include 48bit on the ATA controller card and with OS X 10.2, can support drives larger then 132 GB.
So my question is: What's the theoretical drive capacity limit on the newest PowerMacs.
Or more generally, how large of a hard disk can ATA/100 48 bit support?
Thanks
theFly
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Not much else eats drivespace like video.
Thanks for the info. I wonder how much a large drive like that would cost me now. But I'm sure Microsoft would fine a way to fill it with their latest operating system.
theFly
Originally posted by TheFly
After doing some serious searching, I found that the newest PowerMacs include 48bit on the ATA controller card and with OS X 10.2, can support drives larger then 132 GB.
There's no MAC OS 10.2 requirement here. Only the proper driver on the motherboard (aka ATA controler) is needed. I have a Quicksilver dual 1GHz from jan-02 and a 160GB hard drive, recongnised in both OS X and the old 9.2.2
Some prog like norton or diskwarrior seem to have some problem when I attend to repair the disk tough, but at least it work great in OS 9.
I'm not sure when support for large drives was added to OS X.