[CUBE] Cube upgrades vs. new Powermac

[Allan Hise]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Benjamin Ing wrote:

> On Apr 20, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Phil Mitchell wrote:
>
> > What "hack" are you referring to?? My wife has a Seagate 80/7200/8mb
> > in her Cube and I have a Seagate 120/7200/8mb in my Cube - for over
> > six months now with nary a hiccup!
>
> You need a hack to support Enhanced IDE drives to allow you to see more
> than 137 MB of hard drive space.

I don't think it is possible with any sort of software hack. The IDE
chipset on the cube is physically incapable of addressing more drive space
than 137 GB. You would have to solder on a new IDE controller that has
more address bits, and that would get ugly fast.

Allan