[CUBE] Anyone try a larger drive than 120 GB in a cube?

[Tobias Leung]

Is is possible to do the formatting in a firewire case and then 
transfer it to a cube?

-toby
On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 05:35  PM, Kunga wrote:

> Sorry Joost, you are mistaken. Your friend is right Nic. I just 
> installed a 250 GB WD 7200 RPM HD with 8MB buffer divided into 4 
> partitions of 20 GB for X, 17.67 GB for 9 (minimum allowed on this 
> monster), 67 GB and 127.57 GB and they are all there. Thank God I 
> bought that dual 867. I knew it would be good for something.
>
> The trick is you have to set it up on a Mac that has an ATA/100 bus 
> somewhere on it (native or via PCI card). I am so excited. I now have 
> 233 GB (net) of space INSIDE my Cube. Wow! That means I can put the 
> other one outside on my external IDE cable and have 466 GB (net) of 
> space. My optical is in a FW case. Whoopie!
>
> Kunga
>
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> On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 03:47  PM, Nicolai Sidenius wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine told me that the limit (~120 GB) can be simply 
>> overcome by making two or more partitions. Is this true?
>
>
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