[X4U] 160 GByte drive in Sawtooth (G4-AGP)?

[Simon Forster]

On 31 Oct 2005, at 13:46, Jim Robertson wrote:

> I know that the ATA controller in the Sawtooth (my son has the 450 MHz
> version) supports only 128 GBytes per drive. What if I put in a  
> larger drive
> but partition it? Is the limitation 128 MBytes per volume or for the
> physical device?

Physical device. i.e. You'll only see 128 GB however much you slice  
it up.

There's a driver out there which allows a machine to see the full 160  
GB hard drive - see <http://www.speedtools.com/ATA6.shtml>. I've not  
used the driver and they make some understandable warnings about  
making the first partition 127.99 GB.

<http://www.lowendmac.com/macdan/05/1024.html> has 4 ways of getting  
the full 160 GB of data from an older Mac.

Simon Forster
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