[MacDV] Hard Drive Preference

[Nick Scalise]

It's not the CPU having issues, but rather if your machine has 48-bit  
LBA support. Your Sawtooth may have issues with drives over 128GB,  
but not if put in a proper firewire case.

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178>

On May 28, 2005, at 6:31 AM, KS wrote:


> Thanks for the helpful replies about Seagate.  I need to correct a  
> typing mistake I made.  It's a 300GB drive (not 300MB).  Also, I've  
> read that a drive might be too big for your CPU to handle.  I have  
> a Sawtooth G4 upgraded to dual 500 with 1.2G memory.  Will I be  
> able to get the maximum "speed" & performance using a drive this  
> large?  I'll be using it to edit video with iMovie.
>