[G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD

[Richard Northouse]

John,

I don't think it work. The disc controller can only compute an address up to
128 Gb.  Even if you split the disc into pieces, you still have to address
all the pieces. If one adds a pci card, than this new controller can address
the entire drive and hence see all 160gb or 320 gb, or ?

My two bits worth.

Rich





-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:g4-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of John Niven
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 7:14 PM
To: ewood at izoom.net; A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers.
Subject: Re: [G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD

This comes up all the time! Has anybody actually done
it, rather than imagining it?

I put a 160Gb drive in my Gigabit Ethernet and under
10.3.9's Disk Utility it would only recognize it as a
128Gb. How can I partition it, if it's only recognized
as 128Gb? In truth I don't really care since 128Gb is
more than enough and if I really wanted more I'd just
buy another disk.

John

--- Eric Wood <ewood at izoom.net> wrote:

> If it won't format beyond a single 128 GB partition,
> I imagine it's
> possible to make two partitions in order to take
> full advantage of the
> drive's capacity. The goal there would be to use the
> entire drive up
> with the two partitions, however large you make the
> two of them. The
> default is simply to cut the drive in half.



       
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