[Cube] Fwd: New HardDrive

Jerry Wass jerry.wass at comhem.se
Fri Aug 18 19:53:39 PDT 2006


>Jan Georgen wrote:
>> Has anybody tried SpeedTools'  ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver? It allows 
>> you to set up a second partition that recognizes the remainder of disk 
>> space. Now maybe I am confused, but my understanding was that the cube 
>> would only recognize a 128gb drive, even if the drive was larger and 
>> partitioned. I used the previously mentioned driver (available from 
>> OWC through a link on Cubeowners.com for $10) with a G3 beige and a 
>> B&W with no problems, currently have only a 120gig drive in my cube now. 
>Yes, I tried this using SpeedTools driver, and it worked okay but there 
>were weird things about it (something about difficulty recovering data 
>or partitions or something like that) that made me uncomfortable, so I 
>went back to a 120gb internal and endless external disks!

I use SpeedTools ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver. It is excellent, the only
thing you will need is to keep the system on the first 128Gb partition.

To recover the whole volume you will need to have the driver installed
on the rescue disk.

All the best, Jerry



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