[CUBE] Yes It Works! Anyone try a larger drive than 120 GB in a cube?

[Allan Hise]

It is probably because large drives (>128 GB or whatever the magic number
is...) require extra bits to address the data greater than that magic
number. The Cube's bus doe not have those bits, so it can't access that
data. The drive was partitioned in a systhem that is capable of seeing the
whole drive. The partition map is stored in very low addresses, so the
cube can see it and tries to use it as is.  Disk Utitlity is trying to
tell you that the partition map sees a big ol hunk of drive space free,
but it can't really talk to most of it.

My guess is that once you fill up the addressable space, depending on how
smart the OS is, you'll either be told the disk is full or you will have
file corruption and / or lost files. And, as previous posters have noted,
you may totally hose things when you run a disk utility, once again, based
on how smart the programmers made it to deal with situations like this.

Allan

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Kunga wrote:

> OK so each partition in Disk Utility shows capacities correctly until I
> get to the fourth one when it says
> Capacity 22.73 GB
> Available 127.57 GB
>
> So what's up with that discrepancy? Does that mean it won't take more
> than 22.73 GB of stuff before it explodes? Or what?
>
> k
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> On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 02:27  PM, Joost van de Griek wrote:
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> > On 2003-06-11 23:00, Kunga wrote:
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> >> I can't find fsck on Version Tracker. You have a URL for fsck?
> >
> > Sure: </Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility>
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> > In other words: it comes with the OS. You can run it from the Terminal
> >  by typing fsck, if you don't want Disk Utility's GUI.
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