Maxtor 160GB (Blue and White G3)

[Roy Harker]

Wouldn't it be possible to partition the drive thereby making the 
complete drive usable?

N. LeRoy Harker
Technology Instructor
Magrath Jr/Sr High School
Magrath, Alberta
Canada


On 6-Jan-04, at 9:11 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> I just put a Western Digital 160 GB 7200 rpm hard drive in my Beige G3 
> (on sale
> for $100 with an 8 meg cache!). You're right it does have a 137 GB 
> limit
> because of 28 bit addressing (whatever that is) and the difference in 
> how the
> bits are counted 1k being 1024 bits instead of 1000 it actually boils 
> down to
> 127 GB. It works just fine that way. For me that's enough space and 
> the day I
> buy a G5 (likely far away) I know I'll get that extra space back.
>
> If you buy one try and get one with an 8 meg cache as opposed to a 2 
> megs it
> will work faster.
>
> cheers
>
> Richard
>
> Quoting chrisandheather at shaw.ca:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does anyone know if I can install a hard drive this size on my Blue 
>> and
>> White G3? I thought someone here awhile back said the built in limit
>> was 137GB. Would it work and format to that size? Does anyone know? 
>> Has
>> anyone tried it??
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
>
>
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