[G4] 120 GB Barrier Question

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Dick-

	The limit is per drive- 137 GB (28 bit Logical Block Addressing -LBA-) 
for ATA-4 and ATA-5

ATA-6 came along and introduced 48 Bit addressing, bringing the 
possibility of having terrabytes of storage on a single disk.

hope that helps a little


sandor




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On May 4, 2004, at 8:54 AM, Richard Kriss wrote:

> I did as suggested and found this G4-450 AGP has ATA-4's. I currently 
> have a
> 20 GB and 40 GB Hard Drives installed.  Does that mean the the Max I 
> can use
> is a 60 GB and 60GB or can I go up to 120 GB and 120 GB?
>
> The reason for asking is I use one drive as a primary and the other as 
> a
> secondary or backup drive.  I use CCC to backup the primary to the 
> secondary
> and was thinking bout getting two 120 GB drives.
>
> The 120 barrier is confusing.
>
> Dick
>
>
> On 5/4/04 7:13 AM, "Power Macintosh G4 List" 
> <G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From: Jim Pacyga <jim.pacyga at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: Re: [G4] posting, please?
>> Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 22:11:01 -0700
>>
>> Go into the System Profiler (hopefully you have OS X 10.3).  If you go
>> under the Hardware->ATA section on the left hand nav bar, you will get
>> the ATA device tree.
>
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